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Edward L. “Buzz” Palmer co-founded Chicago’s Afro-American Patrolmen’s League in 1968 and became a community activist who tried to connect people around the world who saw the Black struggle in America as an impetus for change.
Mr. Palmer, a former cop who headed Chicago’s Sister Cities program during Mayor Harold Washington’s administration, died Sunday of prostate cancer at his South Shore home. He was 84.
Buzz Palmer (left), who headed the Sister Cities initiative for Mayor Harold Washington (center), with a trade delegation from Sweden.
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His wife, former State Sen. Alice Palmer, said she has gotten condolences from people around the world, including Meghnad Desai, a former British Labour Party politician, Senegalese leader Doudou Diène, Glyn Ford, a former member of the European Parliament, and Finnish scholar Kaarle Nordernstreng.
Lapham’s Quarterly is running a series on the history of best sellers, exploring the circumstances that might inspire thousands to gravitate toward the same book and revisiting well-loved works from the past that, due to a variety of circumstances, vanished from the conversation after they peaked on the charts. We are also publishing a digital edition of one of these forgotten best sellers, Mary Augusta Ward’s 1903 novel Lady Rose’s Daughter
, with a new introduction, annotations, and an appendix. To read more about the project and explore the other entries in the series, click here.
When asked to name the American novel with the greatest continuing social relevance, the literary historian is apt to reply with
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features beryl satter, the author of family properties: race, real estate, and the exploitation of black urban america . published earlier this year by metropolitan books. my name is eric arnesen. i m a professor of history at the unirsity of illinois at chicago, and i will be talking about her book before we open up the discussion to you, our audience members. .. city officials allod the construction of public housing only in already-black areas while engages in rural program that is raised healthy black neighborhoods. minorities were experiencing racial change. while federally ensured mortgages went to whites in all while areas. a free marke in real estate was a complete myth. but if anyone thought the accounts by the historians have told us, the new book quickly proves them wrong. family properties does not retell a depressing tale but yet weaves the sto of his family into a economic exemployeation and individual and community activism. the results, i would suggest, i