More than 50 years ago, standing on Rainbow Beach with Lake Michigan to our backs and an angry, white mob seething before us, the last thing we were thinking about was how this would play in the press.
Perhaps we should have. What we did on August 28, I960 by leading a protest to desegregate Chicago's lakefront beaches would have been little more than a whisper in the wind if our efforts had not made the local newspapers. This was most extraordinarily evident when it came to the coverage we received in the Black press.
Black publications have historically - even before the Civil War - informed and encouraged its largely Black readership while simultaneously crusading for …
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