Dorsey, James 1942-2003
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.
OBITUARIES:
PERIODICALS
Chicago Tribune, January 25, 2003.*
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