National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Plaque

Carl Sandburg, as a newspaper columnist, covered the Chicago Race Riots in 1919. These columns were compiled into a book of the same name shortly thereafter. Sandburg stated that "pride of race will come to the negro when a dark skin is no longer associated with poverty, misery, terror and insult." The NAACP President Roy Wilkens called Sandburg, "a major prophet of Civil Rights in our time."� Sandburg was very proud of this award. It was one of a very few that he kept in daily view. (Niven, p 699)