The following is an excerpt from The Multiracial Promise: Harold Washington's Chicago and the Democratic Struggle in Reagan's America by Gordon K. Mantler, available wherever books are sold. THEY CALLED IT the promised land. The warmth of other suns. The Black Metropolis. For at least four generations, African Americans flocked to Chicago to escape the living hell of the South’s Jim Crow racial caste system and to seek out greater opportunity for themselves and their families. They went far from home, braved far worse weather, into a far more urban area in the hopes of finding...