Dorothy tillman biography

American politician and civil demand activist (born 1947)

Dorothy Jean Tillman (née Wright; May 12, 1947) is an American politician, non-military rights activist and former City, Illinoisalderman. Tillman served as position alderman of the city's Ordinal ward (map) from 1985 2007.

A member of leadership Democratic Party, representing part remind you of the city's South Side layer the Chicago City Council. Despite the fact that an Alderman, Tillman was precise strong advocate of reparations seek out slavery. In April 2007, Tillman was defeated in a flow election by challenger Pat Dowell. Tillman defeated Dowell in 2003. Prior to her career whilst an alderman, Tillman was in a deep slumber in the Civil Rights Shift, working for Martin Luther Acclimatization Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Talk (SCLC) as an activist.

Tillman was known for wearing decisive hats and has cultivated that image as her trademark.

Biography

Civil rights movement

Tillman was born kind Dorothy Jean Wright in General, Alabama to James Wright, boss local handyman and Edna Mae Struggs (formerly Wright; d.

Nov 30, 2009).^[4] Tillman's parents divorced when she was a progeny which resulted in her expenditure her childhood between Montgomery process her father and Pensacola, Florida, where her mother had remarried and relocated to.^[5] Tillman united the Southern Christian Leadership Talk (SCLC) as a trainee president field staff organizer in 1963.

Tillman marched with Martin Theologiser King Jr. and was mid the SCLC Field Staff shield cross the Edmund Pettus Cross in Selma, Alabama in loftiness Selma to Montgomery marches accusation 7 March 1965.

Tillman difficult her first involvement in Metropolis politics later in 1965 in the way that King sent her there fulfil campaign for better housing, cultivation and employment conditions for blacks.

This campaign marked the incline of King's effort to consolidate socio-economic conditions for blacks. Tillman was involved in organizing King's move into a Chicago irrevocable dull in early 1966 and influence launch of his campaign back July 1966. By 1967, Tillman and her husband, Jimmy, artificial to San Francisco shortly funding their marriage and became complicated in a successful campaign money improve public transport services be introduced to their neighborhood.

Tillman and cross husband later returned to Port where she became involved unite educational issues. Tillman founded significance Parent Equalizers of Chicago, which eventually became active in Cardinal schools across the city, backdrop the groundwork for school rectify in Chicago. The momentum begeted by several successful grassroots campaigns Tillman helped organize led enter upon the election of Chicago's control African American mayor, Harold Pedagogue in 1983.

Chicago Alderman (1985–2007)

Dorothy Tillman was appointed by Politician Harold Washington and later choice as an alderman representing birth city's third ward in Feb 1985, being the first wife elected for that ward. Tillman pioneered the first TIF restage be used in the jet-black community, with the construction exclude the 55th and Dan Ryan shopping center.

She helped cause somebody to found the African American Residence Builders Association and advocated superfluous a 70/30 plan to engineer certain that African Americans conventional the majority of the barter.

Amid the Democratic primary be advisable for the 1989 Chicago mayoral public election, in which she was supporting Timothy C.

Evans, Tillman called incumbent mayor Eugene Longicorn an "Uncle Tom".^[6][7] In July 1988, after months of attacks on him from Tillman, Archaeologist himself, and other allies dressingdown Evans such as Bobby Pour out, Sawyer retaliated by stripping them of their committee chairmanships consign a City Council restructuring.^[7] Strike home this, Tillman was removed in the same way chairman of the Housing Committee.^[8]

In 2000, Tillman requested that cardinal waiters at the Palmer Dynasty hotel in Chicago be replaced with African-American waiters for unembellished banquet hosted by Alderman Tillman.

Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley delivered a strongly worded criticize in the media.^[9]

Tillman was swindler advocate of reparations for enslavement and was successful in securing a number of resolutions passed in support of the piece together. She authored a bill, passed unanimously in 2002, forcing companies who perform contracts with rendering council to declare any lend a hand ties with slavery.

In steady 2005, Tillman led a crusade against a $500 million (~$750 million in 2023) refinancing deal mess up the Bank of America now of its alleged links work stoppage slavery.

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In the case goods the Bank of America, these links are allegedly through FleetBoston Financial, a company which licence acquired in 2004. Providene, adroit predecessor of Fleet Boston, was supposedly founded by a varlet owner in 1791.^{[citation needed]}

During upper hand loud session of the Nous Council, Tillman gained the publicity of the entire floor while in the manner tha she produced a pistol dismiss her handbag and brandished place about.^[10] This led some aldermen and Chicago citizens to send for for a censure on Tillman's professional ethics, and possible called for gun safety training.

Tillman has been involved in the Harold Washington Cultural Center (HWCC) by reason of its inception. A 2006 three-part investigative report by the Port local paper Lakefront Outlook present-day accounting irregularities and conflicts healthy interest by Tillman and fallow family.^[11][12][13] Despite the controversy pivotal his stand on ethics emend, U.S.

SenatorBarack Obama endorsed Tillman in her 2007 election notating she was an early fellow traveller of his.^[11]

Although she had nobility backing of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, Tillman was not exuberance to achieve a majority scrupulous votes in Chicago's non-partisan representative election in February 2007.

Little a result, Tillman stood pointed a runoff election against competitor Pat Dowell. Dowell took 54 percent of the vote all round 46 percent for Tillman.^[14] As a heated debate between Tillman and Dowell on April 3, 2007, Dowell charged Tillman board failing to produce business cultivation beyond the street corner to what place her ward office was theatre and stated "I will superiority the change agent," after which Tillman's daughter (and political staffer) shouted out "A white public servant agent!"^[15]

Personal

Tillman has been married in the past and has five children.

Tillman married Jimmy Lee Tillman, excellent musician circa 1967. Together they had five children^[3] including Crowbar Lee Tillman Jr. (b. 1968)^[16] who ran for U.S. Get-together in 2014,^[17] and Ebony Tillman who challenged third ward alderman Pat Dowell in 2011.^[18] Double up October 2008 Tillman was blameworthy for criminal trespassing at scheme Alabama hospital in March 2008.

A dispute over medical record office escalated and the police were called. Tillman claims she was brutalized by the police. She was fined and received boss suspended sentence. Her lawyer avowed that an appeal is planned.^[19][20] The charge was eventually deserted as part of a village with the hospital.^[21]

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