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Bossism, Racism and Dr. King
Good, Paul | September 19, 1966 issue

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A Nobel Peace Prize winner pits his strength against a political boss and in a test between old and new sources of American power, the boss gives ground. A band of Afro-Americans split off from the main civil rights leadership and marches into the sinister suburb of Cicero, Illinois. It has been quite a summer In Chicago, Illinois. August 1966 produced a comprehensive fair-housing agreement between the forces of Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader, and the power blocs of the community. But accord came only after, the threat of violence had produced intolerable tensions.

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KING, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; RACISM; AFRICAN Americans; CIVIL rights; CHICAGO (Ill.); ILLINOIS; UNITED States
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