HISTORY PRESENTATIONHAROLD LEE WASHINGTON

By Helen Wu

CONTENT

Autobiography

Meat parking

World war II 1941-1946

Race

Mayor in the office

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Name: Harold Lee Washington

D.O.B. APRIL 15 1922

P.O.B. Chicago, Illinois, USA

Parents: Bertha Washington Roy Lee Washington Sr.

Spouses: Nancy Dorothy Finch (JULY 22, 1942 (17) -- February 25,

1950)

Mary Ella Smith (engaged)

Service/branch United States Army Air Force (1942-1945)

Battles/ wars: world war two (south pacific, Phillipine)

MEAT PARKING

17yrs drop from DuSable High School

Join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC . Found by president

Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

1940 worked in the Union Stockyards (freezer department)

Worked in the cold and wet

Gloves, high boots, rubber shoes and layers of clotheing

Need to warm up

Worked for one year, then worked in the U.S. Treasury Department

WORLD WAR II

From 1941-46

07/12/ 1941 Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

08/12/1941 Germany and Italy declared war with United States

Anti- German in Chicago/ didn’t respond the killing, dropped the Germen Culture

All the whites needed to the war from 20 to 45

The blacks grown quickly in Chicago, worked in the North of City

Black soldiers in fall 1942

Joined air force/ got his high school diploma from DuSable High School

In the south Pacific /Nancy wrote love letter to him

Served 3 ½ yrs /discharged with honor

POLITICIAN/RACE

Roosevelt College 1946/ Student Government

Speech /closed with the whites

It was very stranger to black walked with the whites

Northwestern University/ Law/ only black

Became lawyer/worked with his Dad

Black people involved in the politician

His father motivated his a lot

Working with Ralph Metcalfe/ Richard J. Daley/ William Dawson

Organize Young Democrats organization

He dropped by Daley/ threaten to Daley

POLITICIAN/RACE

Illinois House 1965-1976-1980

Martin Luther King’s birthday

Tension with Daley and the rest of the Machine

leadership

Human Rights Act of 1980/restricted

discrimination

Hard as steel/soft as butter

MAYOR IN THE OFFICE

1983-1987

First black mayor

Made end of the race

First term/ ugly/ whites

Became better/support by African American, Latino and White liberal aldermen

Death in his office/ discussing school board issues

Suddenly slumped over his desk,

Northwestern Memorial Hospital

Heart attack/248 lbs/enlarged heart/ hypertension/ high cholesterol

Lot of people went to his funeral

PLACE TO REMEMBER

Harold Washington College

Harold Washington Library

Harold Washington Cultural Center

Harold Washington Park

REFERENCE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Washington

City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago by

Robert G. Spinney

“HAROLD” The People’s Mayor by Dempsey J.

Travis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVr1xKt_co

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