Background
Travis, Dempsey Jerome was born on February 25, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Louis and Mittie (Strickland) Travis.
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Few were more qualified than Dempsey Travis to write the history of African Americans in Chicago, and none would be able to do it with the same command of firsthand sources. This seminal paperback reissue of Travis's best-known work, An Autobiography of Black Chicago, depicts Chicago's African-American community through the personal experiences of Dempsey Travis, his family, and his circle. Starting with John Baptiste Point du Sable, who was the first non–Native American to settle on the mouth of the Chicago River, and ending with Travis's own successes leading the city's NAACP chapter, organizing Martin Luther King's first march in the city, and providing equal housing opportunities for black Chicagoans, An Autobiography of Black Chicago is a comprehensive yet intimate history of African Americans in 20th-century Chicago.
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Dempsey J. Travis sets out more material on the jazz world, especially the Chicago jazz world, from Mob to musicians. There is a modest amount of material here on Norman Granz, and a lot on Billie Holliday, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, Charlie Parker, Nat King Cole, Ben Webster, Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Oscar Peterson, and Clark Terry
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Travis, Dempsey Jerome was born on February 25, 1920 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Son of Louis and Mittie (Strickland) Travis.
Bachelor, Roosevelt University, 1949. Graduate, School Mortgage Banking, Northwestern University, 1969. D.Econs., Olive Harvey College, 1974.
Doctor of Business Administration (honorary), Daniel Hale Williams University, Chicago, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), Kennedy-King College, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Governor State University, 2001.
President, Travis Realty Company, Chicago, since 1949; president, Urban Research Press, since 1969.
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Trustee Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Chicago History Society, Auditorium Theater, Chicago, Roosevelt University. Board directors Columbia College With Army of the United States, 1942-1946. Member United Mortgage Bankers Association American (president 1961-1974), Dearborn Real Estate Board (president 1957-1959, 70-71), National Association Real Estate Brokers (1st vice president 1959-1960), Institute Real Estate Management, Society Professional Journalists, Society Midland Authors (president 1988-1990), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (president Chicago 1959-1960), Economics Club, Forty Club Chicago, Assembly Club, Cliff Dwellers, The Caxtons Club.
Married Moselynne Hardwick, September 17, 1949.