Dorsey, James 1942-2003

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DORSEY, James 1942-2003

PERSONAL:

Born 1942; died after suffering a heart attack, January 23, 2003, in Waukegan, IL.

CAREER:

Baptist minister, Civil Rights activist, writer, educator.

WRITINGS:

Up South: Blacks in Chicago's Suburbs, 1719-1983, Wyndham Hall Press (Bristol, IN), 1986.

SIDELIGHTS:

James Dorsey was a Civil Rights leader who marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. He was also a minister, educator, and writer whose Up South: Blacks in Chicago's Suburbs, 1719-1983 is a history that covers more than two and a half centuries of black movement in the Chicago area. Dorsey died in 2003 following a heart attack. He was sixty years old.

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PERIODICALS

Chicago Tribune, January 25, 2003.*