Activists chart course for Black America's progress after a year of turmoil
Donna M. Owens, Special to USA TODAY
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The arc of Timuel Black Jr.’s life is long, covering most of the 20th century and all we've seen of the 21st. Along the way, the 102-year-old labor organizer, educator, author and freedom fighter has witnessed pivotal events in American and African American history.
As an infant, he survived the influenza pandemic of 1918. He was part of the Great Migration, which brought his family north from Alabama to Chicago. As an Army soldier in World War II, he battled Hitler abroad and segregation at home. During the civil rights movement, he led a contingent to the March on Washington in 1963.