Joel Hall - a portrait
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Congratulations Joel!
Honorary Joel Hall Way is outside his dance studio at 5965 N. Clark Street
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The Joel Hall Youth Dance Company
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Visit Honorary Joel Hall Way outside the Joel Hall Dance Center
Joel Hall Day - November 21, 2015
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Joel Hall is a dancer, choreographer, instructor and director of the Joel Hall Dance Center.
Read MoreJewel Stradford Lafontant Day in Chicago September 17, 2001
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Jewel Stradford Lafontant was a very impressive Chicagoan; throughout her life she was at the forefront of fighting segregation and the mistreatment of individuals in all forms.
Jewel Stradford Lafontant in 1946 was the first African-American woman to earn a law degree from the University of Chicago. While a student she led protests and took legal action against local restaurants that discriminated against black patrons.
She began her legal career at the Legal Aid Society. In 1963 she won a case before the Supreme Court defending her client against a forced confession while in police custody. This was one of the cases which led to the 1966 adoption of the Miranda warnings to protect the rights of the accused.
Jewel Lafontant ascended to high ranks in the US government. In 1955 President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed her assistant US Attorney for the Illinois Northern District. She went on to become the highest ranking woman in President Richard Nixon's administration as US Deputy Solicitor General in 1973. In 1989 President George H. W. Bush appointed her ambassador-at-large for refugee affairs at the State Department.
Jewel Lafontant was on Ebony Magazine's list of the 100 most influential black Americans. She was also on the board of directors of several large companies and institutions. She served in leadership positions with the Chicago National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
The City of Chicago honored her with Jewel Stradford Lafontant Day in Chicago September 17, 2011 on the occasion of the dedication of her honorary street sign Jewel Stradford Lafontant Way.
Jewel Stradford Lafontant-Mankarious, April 28, 1922 – May 31, 1997.
Born in Chicago
Oberlin College
University of Chicago Law School
NYT Obituary http://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/03/us/jewel-lafontant-mankarious-lawyer-and-us-official-dies.html
Lee Sandlin Way
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Lee Sandlin. A Chicago writer, essayist for the Chicago Reader and contributor to national publications. Author of several books
Read MoreHonorary Chicago now available at Women & Children First Bookstore
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Read More9/9/2014 Dedication of Honorary Sign to Police Officers Hauser & Killroy
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Today at 6pm there will be a dedication of an honorary street in 36th Ward of Alderman Nicholas Sposato, at the corner of West Palmer Street and North Nordica Avenue.
Police officers Gregory Hauser (age 43) & Raymond Killroy (age 47) of the Grand-Central Chicago Police District died in the line of duty on May 13, 1990 when called to the scene of a domestic dispute on Nordica Ave.