Colorful Legacies: Celebrating Evanston’s Black Historical Figures, is a children’s coloring book. Inside this book you will find stories of 20 Black people who have been important to Evanston. There are many more Black people who have been important to Evanston, but we could only fit 20 in this first coloring book. How do people become important to a city? They become important by helping other people; by caring for their families and friends; by looking out for their neighbors. People become important by caring for Evanston. You care for your family and friends. You care for Evanston. You are already important to Evanston.