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“So I was trying to get people to run for the different offices. So every time I tried to get someone, they would back out because they were fearful about what happened to Ben Lewis.”
RICHARD BARNETT
Political organizer


Here's how things worked....
Here’s how things worked...

On February 28, 1963, Ben Lewis, the 24th Ward’s first black representative in the Chicago City Council, was found on the floor of his office, handcuffed with three bullets in his head. The case is still unsolved.
Scroll down to learn more about “plantation politics” and the racial and political conflicts behind the murder.
Scroll down to learn more about “plantation politics” and the racial and political conflicts behind the murder.

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Cardinal Marketing Group (www.gocgm.com ceo@gocgm.com (980) 666-6991)
Detailed photo credits:
Slide 15 (Daley with map) RJD_04_01_0040_0005_012. Richard J. Daley Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Slide 17 (Congressman O’Brien): RJD_04_01_0001_0013_014. Richard J. Daley Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Slide 20 (Alderman Lewis with supporters): , Jeanne Boger Jones Papers, Box 6, Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library.
Slide 24 and 29 (Composite): Laszlo Kondor, MSLASZ13_06_02_18a. Laszlo Kondor Photograph Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago; RJD_04_01_0034_0010_006. Richard J. Daley Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jeanne Boger Jones Papers, Box 6, Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library.
Cardinal Marketing Group (www.gocgm.com ceo@gocgm.com (980) 666-6991)
Detailed photo credits:
Slide 15 (Daley with map) RJD_04_01_0040_0005_012. Richard J. Daley Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Slide 17 (Congressman O’Brien): RJD_04_01_0001_0013_014. Richard J. Daley Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Slide 20 (Alderman Lewis with supporters): , Jeanne Boger Jones Papers, Box 6, Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library.
Slide 24 and 29 (Composite): Laszlo Kondor, MSLASZ13_06_02_18a. Laszlo Kondor Photograph Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago; RJD_04_01_0034_0010_006. Richard J. Daley Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jeanne Boger Jones Papers, Box 6, Harsh Research Collection, Woodson Regional Library, Chicago Public Library.