Timuel Black, an educator, political adviser, historian and activist has died at age 102, taking with him a wealth of wisdom and leaving behind a legacy of change.
Black, who was a pioneer in civil rights and coined the phrase “plantation politics,” passed away on Wednesday, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
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Black’s story began as the youngest of three children to sharecropper parents. He migrated with his family from Alabama to Chicago in 1919 and began his work in activism as a teenager during the Great Depression. In 1931, Black walked his first picket line as a store clerk protesting for better wages with his coworkers.
On his 23rd birthday, Pearl Harbor was bombed and Black enlisted to fight in World War II.
Source: Civil Rights Activist and Historian Timuel Black Dies at 102
