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Article: Cultural Center opening, bronze statue, honor memory of Chicago's first Black mayor.(National Report)
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- Jet
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- September 6, 2004
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The legacy of the late Harold Washington, who made history over 20 years ago by becoming the first Black mayor of Chicago, will continue to help future generations of Blacks with the opening of a newly built cultural center.
Hundreds attended the grand opening of the Harold Washington Cultural Center in the Bronzeville neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, which included the unveiling of a 20-foot, bronze east statue of the late mayor created by world-renowned sculptor Ed Dwight Jr.
The 750-pound statue at the intersection of 47th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Drive shows an authoritative Washington in a suit and tie, talking as if to a committee ...