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Chicago is among 12 major cities that declared curfews in order to prevent looting and vandalism. [4] On May 31, Mayor Lori Lightfoot asked Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker to send the Illinois National Guard to Chicago for the first time in the 52 years since the 1968 riots in Chicago. [5] The economic damage caused by the disturbances exceeded ...
ST. LOUIS ‒ They feed the hungry. They counter violence and racial injustice. They fight for criminal justice reform and against book bans. And this week, more than 4,200 of them came together ...
On March 29, 2021, at 2:38 a.m., a 13-year-old Mexican American boy, Adam Toledo, was shot and killed by Eric Stillman, a Chicago Police Department officer, in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. After the incident, the Chicago Police Department stated Toledo had been killed after an armed confrontation with police. [133]
Yet, racial injustice has been baked into our education system since its genesis. We still can’t shake it. Nearly 51 million students are enrolled in America’s public schools , but the system ...
Racial tensions on Chicago's southwest side were high in the 1980s. In 1983, Chicago voters elected their first black mayor, Democrat Harold Washington . The Republican candidate for mayor, Bernard Epton , received 48% of the vote, an unusually high percentage for a Republican candidate in a city that had historically been strongly Democratic.
A judge has expunged the misdemeanor convictions of a St. Louis couple who waved guns at racial injustice protesters outside their mansion in 2020. Attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey filed a ...
Tuttle Jr, William M. "Labor conflict and racial violence: The Black worker in Chicago, 1894–1919." Labor History 10.3 (1969): 408–432. Tuttle, William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970). Weems Jr, Robert E. The Merchant Prince of Black Chicago: Anthony Overton and the Building of a Financial Empire (U of Illinois Press ...
After George Floyd’s murder in 2020 sparked a racial reckoning, more Black NFL players advocated publicly for racial justice and called on the league to condemn racism and police brutality and ...
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