This page is part of the SelassieFest Historical Reconstruction Project. The full story — how Ethiopian and Caribbean diaspora communities took root in Chicago, and how that history led to the first SelassieFest — will be added here as research and review are completed. Related primary-source material already exists in the org's history archive (oral histories, immigration research, and the founding timeline).
This section exists to give Heritage Village a real, org-authored migration and founding story — not just Frontline Book Publishing's hosted programming.