The legacy of Bill Nunn Jr.: Without him, the Steelers don t win four Super Bowls
Bill Nunn Jr. was just elected to the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame s Class of 2021. So who was he? Keep reading.
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Bill Nunn Jr. was just elected to the Pro Football Hall-of-Fame s Class of 2021. So who was he? Keep reading.
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Unlike other contributor candidates elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, the Class of 2021’s Bill Nunn Jr. is relatively unknown.
Outside of Pittsburgh, that is.
A former sports reporter and editor at the
Pittsburgh Courier, Nunn joined the Steelers’ personnel department in the 1970s to become the club’s first African-American appointed to a front-office position.
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S.B. Fuller was a prominent Chicagoan during the 1940s and 1950s a self-made Black millionaire whose door-to-door sales company was the nucleus of a national business empire.
Fuller is almost forgotten today, as is the spectacular, brick-and-glass, custom, mid-century modernist home he built in Robbins, a struggling working-class southern suburb that was founded by Black people.
But we’re hoping a small grant from the preservation group Landmarks Illinois provides a needed step toward saving the tattered home owned by the Robbins Historical Society and Museum since 2016 and shines a new light on Fuller and his legacy.
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