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  • Tucked away in rural Illinois: Site of America’s first town founded by a free Black man

    Feb 12, 2021 10:45 am by Chicago TribuneIllinois in the News
    A family reunion of the McWorter family at New Philadelphia in the 1910s. Courtesy Gerald McWorter and Kate Williams-McWorter

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    • A family reunion of the McWorter family at New Philadelphia in the 1910s. Courtesy Gerald McWorter and Kate Williams-McWorter

    Chicago Tribune (Opinion; Feb. 12) A great-great-grandson of town founder Free Frank McWorter, now a retired Illinois professor, said he wonders: How many Black people are part of the national story?