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1936
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Dempsey J. Travis father, Louis Travis, playing the piano (1936).
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1938
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1984
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Chicago Mayor Harold Washington (left) and Dempsey J. Travis (right) on stage at the Petrillo Band Shell at the Chicago Jazz Festival (1984).
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6/17/1960
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(L to R) Dempsey J. Travis, Mayor of Bronzeville; Cora Carroll and NAACP Chief Counsel Thurgood Marshall at the annual NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner (1960).
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1957
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Dempsey J. Travis (second from the left) presenting award to Founder of the Dearborn Real Estate Board Elmore Baker (third from the left) (1957).
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Frank London Brown, one of the speakers at Dempsey J. Travis' banquet.
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7/24/1960
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Dempsey J. Travis and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the West Side Rally of the Chicago Conventions Movement (1960).
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5/1960
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(L to R) Dempsey J. Travis, Sammy Davis Jr. and Daddy-o-Daylie at Winnsomets NAACP fund raising event (1960).
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7/25/1960
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Mass Meeting Demonstration and March poster (1960).
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2/21/1975
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U.S. Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller (left) and Dempsey J. Travis (right) during the presentation of the first Black Enterprise Magazine Award in Finance at the White House (1975).
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2/18/1963
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Dempsey J. Travis with the officers, directors and charter members of the United Mortgage of Bankers of America (1963).
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1968
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Dempsey J. Travis and U.S. Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago (1968).
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12/20/1979
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Dempsey J. Travis and U.S. President Jimmy Carter in the East Room of the White House Following a Briefing and Luncheon Meeting (1979).
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1941
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1932
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Dempsey J. Travis (top row) seventh grade class photo at the Willard Elementary School (1932).
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1983
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Dempsey J. Travis interviewing his piano mentor, Earl Hines (1983).
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(L to R) Dempsey J. Travis' DuSable High School classmates: Nat “King” Cole, John H. Johnson, Dorothy Donegan, Red Foxx and Savannah Strong.
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Dempsey J. Travis' first military home at Fort Custer in St. Augusta, Michigan.
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The 332nd, an All Negro Fighter Group of Pilots Being Briefed Before a Combat Mission in Italy
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Dempsey J. Travis Upon Watching Duke Ellington and His band at Camp Lee
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1944
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Dempsey J. Travis (third from the left) pictured in the A.P.G. Exchange with award, he retained for two years for best Post Exchange (1944).
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1942
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Dempsey J. Travis on His First Army Furlough (l-r) Dempsey J. Travis’s father; Louis Travis, Dempsey J. Travis’s mother; Mittie Travis and Dempsey J. Travis (1942).
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1925
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Dempsey J. Travis at age five (1925).
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1922
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Dempsey J. Travis at age two with his mother, Mittie Travis (1922).
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1970
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Dempsey J. Travis (head of table) attending the Presidential Task Force on Urban Renewal at the White House (1970).
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12/3/1970
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(L to R) Donald Walker, Dempsey J. Travis and Rev. Jesse L. Jackson as Travis' is receiving the First Black Business Man of the Year award (1970).
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Robert Kennedy (center) shaking hands with Dempsey J. Travis (right) at the time of U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s Administration.
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2/12/1964
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Dempsey J. Travis (left) presenting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Robert C. Weaver (right) with an honorary plaque (1964).
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A ticket for the Jack Travis Orchestra at Warwick Hall at 543 East 47th Street in Chicago.
