Chicago
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US
Once Told to Move to the Back of the Bus, Jesse White Became an Illinois Institution
CHICAGO — Jesse White tells a story about being a Black college student from Chicago, newly arrived in Alabama in the segregated South of the 1950s, and casually claiming an open seat near the front of a Montgomery city bus. The driver, who was white ...
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Newyork
Frank Galati, Mainstay of Chicago Theater, Dies at 79
He brought his adaptation of “The Grapes of Wrath” to Broadway and won Tony Awards. He also directed the long-running hit “Ragtime.”