Yesterday

A history of the brief mayoral career of Harold Washington, and its lessons for Black and white America, as told by people close to him. (46 minutes)

Many are activists and politicians, including Lu Palmer, Judge Eugene Pincham, Congressman Danny Davis, and then-Alderman Eugene Sawyer. There are people from his administration, including Jacky Grimshaw and Grayson Mitchell, as well as some reporters who followed his story, such as Vernon Jarrett, Monroe Anderson, Gary Rivlin, and Laura Washington, who later became his press secretary.

Harold Washington died on November 25, 1987. This show was first broadcast ten years later, in 1997.