Funded by the City Colleges of Chicago Foundation
Applications to nominate a student closed on April 26. Applications will reopen in Spring 2025.
Photo credit: Chicago Public Library Timuel D. Black Jr. Digital Collection
The Timuel Black Scholarship & Fellowship (TBSF) Program is inspired by the late City Colleges professor Timuel Black’s remarkable career, his lifelong commitment to equity and justice in Chicago, and his belief in the power of community history and activism.
The program’s goal is to support City Colleges students who are emerging community leaders as they complete their studies and hone their community change leadership skills, as well as their knowledge of Chicago social movements and local history. With the commitment to social justice and racial equity, the program will uphold the values of Mr. Black and empower students to affect positive change in their communities.
Fellows will:
City Colleges of Chicago students who:
Are currently enrolled with six credit hours or more, and have less than 36 credit hours completed in total
Have an interest in civil rights, community activism, and being a changemaker in our communities
Can commit to the monthly and ongoing activities of the Fellowship throughout the school year
Questions? Contact tdblackfellowship@ccc.edu
Timuel D. Black Recap Luncheon
Wednesday, July 24, 2024, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
at Kennedy-King College U-Building Great Hall
May 21, 2024
Students Visit Historic Civil Rights Sites in Alabama During “Eye-Opening” Trip
February 19, 2023
City Colleges of Chicago Proudly Announces the Timuel D. Black Jr. Scholarship and Fellowship Program
Do you know a City Colleges student who has an interest in civil rights, is an emerging community leader, and would be interested in being part of the inaugural Fellowship cohort? Please fill out this form and we will let that student know they have been nominated to apply!
Applications to nominate a student end April 26.
Originally from Alabama, Mr. Timuel Black attended Burke Elementary and DuSable High School in Chicago. Mr. Black was 23 years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed which led him to serve during World War II. He would return from the war and attend Roosevelt University, later receiving a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.
In 1960, Mr. Black worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he came to Chicago to protest housing issues for West Side residents. Mr. Black would go on to help organize thousands of Chicagoans to join the historic March on Washington with Dr. King.
After serving as a Chicago Public Schools teacher, Mr. Black was appointed dean of Wright College in 1969; and held several other roles at City Colleges over the next twenty years, including vice president for academic affairs at Olive-Harvey College, director and chairperson of community affairs, and a professor at Loop College which changed its name to Harold Washington College, in part due to Mr. Black’s influence and advocacy, retiring in 1989.
Mr. Black was instrumental in helping elect Chicago’s first Black Mayor, Harold Washington and the first Black woman elected as a U.S. Senator, Carol Mosely Braun. Later he consulted with then, community organizer, Barack Obama about running for the U.S. Presidency.
