Melida Harris Barrow

CTL-E-0411 · Person · unspecified

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Melida Harris Barrow began the First Chicago Caribbean Carnival in the late 1970s, staging it at Lincoln Park, where it continued for over 20 years.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from GLOBAL-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-GLOBAL-001:GBL-096; source research type(s): Person. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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