Marion Stamps – Worrill’s World

These ploys were designed to remove significant populations of low-income African people from urban areas and disperse them to outlying areas, or the suburbs, so that white people, in their development schemes, could repopulate these urban areas.

McRoberts was obviously ignorant to the fact that most of the significant public policy changes that have occurred in America, aimed at benefiting Africans in America, took place because of the “in- your-face activism” of people like Marion Stamps. In Chicago, specifically, the “in-your-face activism” of Sister Marion, and many others, led to the climate that created the conditions for the election of Chicago’s first African American Mayor, Harold Washington.