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Force and Violence in Illinois
Schroeter, Len | February 9, 1952 issue

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This article focuses on the act of force and violence that took place in Cairo, Illinois. Illinois community is one of the last community in the Northern states in which segregated schools still exist. This community was scheduled to capitulate to democratic principles, when seventy Negro children in a town of 12,000 people were to be admitted into the previously all-white public schools. That night shotgun blasts rocked the homes of two prominent local Negroes. Illinois law provides that no pupil shall be excluded or segregated in any public school on account of race or color. As in most Southern communities, segregation has meant that Negro students are denied decent educational opportunities.

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SEGREGATION in education; AFRICAN American students; VIOLENCE; PUBLIC schools; RACE; CAIRO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; UNITED States
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