Because he is the first African-American president, Barack Obama's Hyde Park home is destined to become a national landmark like his idol Abraham Lincoln's house in Springfield. But perhaps even Barack and Michelle themselves don't know that the spirit of social justice inhabited that house at 51st and Greenwood well before they did.
When I lived there off and on between 1969 and 1973 the mansion, owned by Lutheran Urban Ministries and overseen by the unconventional Rev. George Hrbek, was...
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