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Description for Harold!
Paperback. Captures in words and pictures the emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. This book gives readers a window onto a man who won over an entire city. Num Pages: 120 pages, colour photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJPN; AJCR; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 229 x 15. Weight in Grams: 889.
This handsome book captures in words and pictures the powerful emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. More than one hundred pictures, from candid shots on the campaign trail to triumphant public appearances, give readers a window onto a man who won over an entire city. Washington's mayoral win represented a faltering of the previously all-powerful Chicago Machine, and his campaign was a part of a larger civil rights crusade that forged unity in the black community in Chicago. Antonio Dickey and Marc PoKempner were there with Washington throughout 1982-87, Dickey as his ... Read more
This handsome book captures in words and pictures the powerful emotions that circled around one man in Chicago in the early 1980s: Harold Washington. More than one hundred pictures, from candid shots on the campaign trail to triumphant public appearances, give readers a window onto a man who won over an entire city. Washington's mayoral win represented a faltering of the previously all-powerful Chicago Machine, and his campaign was a part of a larger civil rights crusade that forged unity in the black community in Chicago. Antonio Dickey and Marc PoKempner were there with Washington throughout 1982-87, Dickey as his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810124462
SKU
V9780810124462
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Ref
99-15
About
Antonio Dickey, a former Chicago Daily Defender photographer, volunteered to serve as the full-time campaign photographer when Harold Washington announced his mayoral candidacy in 1982. He stayed on as official photographer to Chicago mayors and currently works for Richard M. Daley. His work has been exhibited at the Chicago Historical Society, the Harold Washington Library, and other venues. Independent photojournalist ... Read more
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