Beverly Now Turns 50
As part of the Christ the King Parish Community Mass and Picnic, the 50th anniversary of Beverly Now will be celebrated. Beverly Now was a presentation fostered by the Christ the King Human Relations committee to ask that the parish help fund an initiative to promote racial integration at a time when Chicago’s south side neighborhoods were rapidly resegregating. Beverly Now was prepared and presented […]
BAPA History: ‘Beverly Now’ Leads to BAPA Reorganization
By L. Patrick “Pat” Stanton The summer of 1971 marked the change of BAPA from a reactive to a proactive role in the Beverly/Morgan Park community. Because of my role in that change in the form of my plan called Beverly Now, I was asked to summarize the event the 70th anniversary of the founding […]