Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Prof. Timuel Black's Papers

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Prof. Timuel Black's Papers:

Prof. Timuel Black's Papers

by Mike Klonsky

Mayor Harold Washington, Timuel D. Black, Jr., (second from left) and others are shown in this 1984 photo. | Courtesy Chicago Public Library

Library officials on Wednesday unveiled the Timuel D. Black, Jr. Papers, the massive collection from the 93-year-old professor emeritus at City Colleges of Chicago who also wears the titles of author, civil rights, labor and political activist and oral historian. The papers can be viewed at the Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection at Woodson Regional Library, 9525 S. Halsted St.

Michael Flug, the retired senior archivist of the Harsh collection, brought in Black’s papers to the library between 2003 and 2010. Flug told the Sun-Times:

“I think it’s arguably the single best collection of material on Chicago African-American history that