| 1. |  | Charlemae Hill Rollins, 1950's | Librarians; Women; Minorities; Authors; Race discrimination; | As children's librarian at the Hall branch of the Chicago Public Library from 1932 to 1963, Charlemae Hill Rollins set generations of Bronzeville youth on paths to achievement. Beginning in the 1930's,... |
| 2. |  | Richard Wright, 1940, as he completed Native Son | Authors; Men; Minorities; | Chicago lawyer Leon Despres inscribed the back of this photograph when he sent it to Horace Cayton, co-author of Black Metropolis, in 1969. Cayton was then at work on a biography of his friend, Richard... |
