Glossary
| Washington, Harold | | Late mayor Harold Washington was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1922. A natural leader, Washington was a decorated Army veteran of the 1887th Engineer Aviation Battalion in World War II and later served as a member of the Illinois State Legislature (1966-1976), the Illinois State Senate (1978-1980), and the US House of Representatives (1981-1983). In 1984, he achieved his greatest victory as the first African American to be elected as Mayor of the City of Chicago. Washington is noted for building a progressive, interracial coalition and his administration introduced many measures that advocated the social and economic rights of minorities. He was reelected in 1987, but died before he beginning his second term. |
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