What is Timuel Black?
{{Infobox person | name = Timuel D. Black Jr. | image = Timuel Black op havoschool Notre Dame des Anges.jpg | image_size = | caption = Black during his visit to [[Netherlands|Dutch]] secondary school [[Notre Dame des Anges]] in 2010 | birth_date = {{birth date|1918|12|7}} | birth_place = [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]], [[Alabama]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|10|13|1918|12|7}} | death_place = [[Kenwood, Chicago|Kenwood]], [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S. | death_cause = [[Prostate cancer]] | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | other_names = | known_for = | education = [[Wendell Phillips High School]]<br/>[[DuSable High School]]<br/>[[Roosevelt University]]<br/>[[University of Chicago]] | employer = | occupation = Social worker, educator, civil rights activist, historian | title = | salary = | networth = | term = | predecessor = | successor = | party = | boards = | religion = | spouse = Norisea J. Cummings (1947-58)<br/> Ruby P. Battle (1959-1968)<br/> Zenobia Johnson-Black (1982-present)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gettinger |first1=Aaron |title=Timuel Black honored for a life of achievement |url=https://hpherald.com/2018/12/10/timuel-black-honored-for-a-life-of-achievement/ |website=HPHerald.com |publisher=Hyde Park Herald |accessdate=1 December 2019 |archive-date=12 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212173049/https://hpherald.com/2018/12/10/timuel-black-honored-for-a-life-of-achievement/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | children = | parents = | relatives = }} '''Timuel Dixon Black Jr.''' (December 7, 1918 – October 13, 2021) was an American historian, educator, author and civil rights activist. He was an expert in [[African American history]] in [[Chicago]]. Black began his career as a social worker. During the 1960s, Black was president of the Negro American Labor Council. He was an organizer of the Chicago participation in the 1963 [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]].<ref>{{cite web <!--|last1=Staff