Legal Opinion
David K. Nelson, Jr. v. Allan Streeter, Dorothy Tillman, and Bobby L. Rush
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 1, 1994No. 92-2991, 92-3177PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
Harold Washington, Chicago’s first black mayor, died suddenly of a heart attack in November 1987, shortly after being reelected. He had become a revered figure to the black community of Chicago — so much so that shortly after his death a poster went on sale in which a smiling Harold Washington is shown in the company of Jesus Christ floating above the Chicago skyline; the poster is captioned ‘Worry Ye Not.” David Nelson, a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, did not think Washington deserving of deification, and so for his entry in the school’s annual…
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