Wash’s mother and sister, Delores, joined in the church’s activities. Their home with Wash’s uncle and aunt was across the street from Woodlawn A.M.E. In Columbus Wash listened to local radio host Eddie Saunders’ gospel program, “Sermons and Song,” along with other broadcasts that introduced him to the black music scene beyond Columbus.īy 1953 the Washes had settled in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood. He was blessed with two godfathers, Russell Pace, Sr., and Leonard Nelson Napper, both involved with local Columbus community arts funding and organization. He remembers 1951-1953 as his “Columbus years,” during which he was introduced to many aspects of black culture in that Ohio city, especially the gospel and jazz music he heard. Dorsey.ĭuring the 1940s and 1950s the Washes lived in several Midwestern communities in Kansas, Nebraska and Ohio. The parents and grandparents of Leonard’s mother were gospel singers and preachers, and Dorothy Wash studied singing with the Rev. Both parents served in evangelical church congregations wherever they lived. His mother worked at Provident Hospital after she moved to Chicago. Leonard’s father, a World War II army veteran, was trained in auto mechanics. 1937 in Topeka, Kan.) and Stanley Gene Wash (b. The couple’s children also included Delores Wash (King) (b. Leonard Wash was born in 1940 to Perry Leon Wash and Dorothy Martha Perkins Wash, both Kansas natives. Throughout his adult life he recorded and collected the records of these activities, which comprise the Leonard Wash Papers. In 1978, he was a founding member of the annual Black Studies Conference at Olive-Harvey College.
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His professional career spanned four decades of teaching social studies and adult education programs at the City Colleges of Chicago. Leonard Wash (1940- ) was a student, activist and teacher, as well as lifelong participant in Chicago’s Black Arts, Black Power and Black Consciousness movements from the 1960s forward. Michael Flug, Senior Archivist, Harsh Archival Processing Project Jeanie Child, Harsh Archival Processing Project, 2012 Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature, Chicago Public Library. When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Leonard Wash Papers, Vivian G. Subsequent donations were made by Leonard Wash several times each year from 2001 through 2016. Halsted St., Chicago, IL 60628ĭeed of gift from Leonard Wash, May 5, 2000. Harsh Research collection of Afro-American History and Literature, 9525 S.
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