Earl B. Dickerson Papers
Finding Aid: Earl B. Dickerson Papers
Repository:
Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature
 | Earl B. Dickerson, remarks delivered on his 95th birthday to the NAACP, June 28, 1986. Among his last public addresses, Dickerson's remarks for an NAACP party recounted his part in a difficult part of the organization's history and reaffirmed his political principles. Note: Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Earl B. Dickerson (center) with his grandmother, mother, and his two half-sisters in Canton, Mississippi c. 1899. After the deaths of his father and grandfather, Dickerson was raised by his maternal grandmother Eliza Garrett, his mother Emma, and his sisters Gertrude and Luella, who helped to support his early education and move to Chicago in 1907. Note: Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Earl B. Dickerson and Kathryn Dickerson in Athens, Greece, 1965. In addition to his work with the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, and as a Civil Rights activist, Dickerson found time to enjoy life's finer things with his family. He and his wife especially loved to travel, and toured extensively across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Note: Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |
 | Earl B. Dickerson, A. W. Williams (President of Unity Mutual Life), and Julius Momo Udochi (Nigerian Ambassador to the United States), at the Dickerson home, 5027 S. Drexel Ave., Chicago, c. August 1961. Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Co. was a center of black business at mid-century, and among the stops for Udochi, the first ambassador to the United States for the newly-independent Nigeria, on his tour of Chicago. In addition to showing him the offices of Supreme and Ebony-Jet publishing, Dickerson hosted a 'stag dinner' in Udochi's honor, inviting many representatives of Chicago's black business community. Note: Chicago Public Library, Carter G. Woodson Regional Library, Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature |