Chicago Mayor Washington: Sources and Further Reading
Sources
Biles, Roger. “Daley’s Chicago.” In Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago History Museum and the Newberry Library, 2005. http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1722.html.
Chicago Public Library. “About HWLC.” https://www.chipublib.org/about-hwlc/.
Chicago Public Library. Harold Washington: A Living Legacy | Presented by Matthew Ewing, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eABkTqXlxc.
Chicago Public Library. “Mayor Harold Washington Biography.” https://www.chipublib.org/mayor-harold-washington-biography/.
Clavel, Pierre, and Wim Wiewel, eds. Harold Washington and the Neighborhoods: Progressive City Government in Chicago, 1983-1987. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Dickerson, Amina J. “DuSable Museum.” In Encyclopedia of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago History Museum and the Newberry Library, 2005. http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/398.html.
"Harold Washington." In Notable Black American Men, Book II, edited by Jessie Carney Smith. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1998. Gale In Context: Biography. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1622000462/BIC?u=uiuc_uc&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=a97628a7.
Levinsohn, Florence Hamlish. Harold Washington: A Political Biography. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review Press, 1983. http://archive.org/details/haroldwashington0000levi_k8e8.
Pinderhughes, Dianne. "Harold Washington." In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History. Detroit, MI: Macmillan Reference USA, 2006. Gale In Context: Biography. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K3444701279/BIC?u=uiuc_uc&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=af6c3c0d.
Podesta, James J. "Washington, Harold 1922–1987." In Contemporary Black Biography, edited by Barbara Carlisle Bigelow, 280-284. Vol. 6. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1994. Gale eBooks. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2870800077/GVRL?u=uiuc_uc&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=c9a06822.
Russell, Thaddeus. "Washington, Harold (1922-1987), politician and mayor of Chicago." In American National Biography. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000. https://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0700663.
Sperry, Heidi and Terry Tatum. “Landmark Designation Report: DuSable High School,” 2012. https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/dcd/Zoning%20Application/ExhibADuSablFinalReport.pdf.
Further Reading
Read Mayor Harold Washington’s Inaugural Address from 1983 (via the Chicago Public Library).
Listen to the Harold Washington Library stop on the Chicago Poetry Tour and read “Mayor Harold Washington” by Gwendolyn Brooks (via Poetry Foundation).
Explore the DuSable Museum in Chicago, IL.
Read Florence Hamlish Levinson’s Harold Washington: A Political Biography (via Internet Archive).
Listen to This American Life's special episode “Harold," dedicated to Chicago’s first Black mayor (via This American Life).
Read a 1971 article from the Daily Illini, “Bill passed to create King Day” (via the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections).