1. HISTORY PRESENTATION
HAROLD LEE
WASHINGTON
By Helen Wu

2. CONTENT
 Autobiography
 Meat parking
 World war II 1941-1946
 Race
 Mayor in the office

3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY
 Name: Harold Lee Washington
 D.O.B. APRIL 15 1922
 P.O.B. Chicago, Illinois, USA
 Parents: Bertha Washington Roy Lee Washington Sr.
 Spouses: Nancy Dorothy Finch (JULY 22, 1942 (17) -- February 25, 1950)
 Mary Ella Smith (engaged)
 Service/branch United States Army Air Force (1942-1945)
 Battles/ wars: world war two (south pacific, Phillipine)

4. MEAT PARKING
 17yrs drop from DuSable High School
 Join the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC . Found by president Franklin
Delano Roosevelt)
 1940 worked in the Union Stockyards (freezer department)
 Worked in the cold and wet
 Gloves, high boots, rubber shoes and layers of clotheing
 Need to warm up
 Worked for one year, then worked in the U.S. Treasury Department

5. WORLD WAR II
 From 1941-46
 07/12/ 1941 Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
 08/12/1941 Germany and Italy declared war with United States
 Anti- German in Chicago/ didn’t respond the killing, dropped the Germen Culture
 All the whites needed to the war from 20 to 45
 The blacks grown quickly in Chicago, worked in the North of City
 Black soldiers in fall 1942
 Joined air force/ got his high school diploma from DuSable High School
 In the south Pacific /Nancy wrote love letter to him
 Served 3 ½ yrs /discharged with honor

6. POLITICIAN/RACE
 Roosevelt College 1946/ Student Government
 Speech /closed with the whites
 It was very stranger to black walked with the whites
 Northwestern University/ Law/ only black
 Became lawyer/worked with his Dad
 Black people involved in the politician
 His father motivated his a lot
 Working with Ralph Metcalfe/ Richard J. Daley/ William Dawson
 Organize Young Democrats organization
 He dropped by Daley/ threaten to Daley

7. POLITICIAN/RACE
 Illinois House 1965-1976-1980
 Martin Luther King’s birthday
 Tension with Daley and the rest of the Machine leadership
 Human Rights Act of 1980/restricted discrimination
 Hard as steel/soft as butter

8. MAYOR IN THE OFFICE
 1983-1987
 First black mayor
 Made end of the race
 First term/ ugly/ whites
 Became better/support by African American, Latino and White liberal aldermen
 Death in his office/ discussing school board issues
 Suddenly slumped over his desk,
 Northwestern Memorial Hospital
 Heart attack/248 lbs/enlarged heart/ hypertension/ high cholesterol
 Lot of people went to his funeral

9. PLACE TO REMEMBER
 Harold Washington College
 Harold Washington Library
 Harold Washington Cultural Center
 Harold Washington Park

10. REFERENCE
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Washington
 City of Big Shoulders A History of Chicago by Robert G. Spinney
 “HAROLD” The People’s Mayor by Dempsey J. Travis
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVr1xKt_co

11. THE END