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Arrested. 200+. The 1966 Chicago West Side riots occurred between July 12 and 15 in Chicago, Illinois. After police arrested a man who was wanted for armed robbery, black residents took to the streets in anger and looted and burned various stores throughout the West Side until the arrival of 1,200 National Guardsmen on July 15.
Vivian Dorothy Maier (February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009) was an American street photographer whose work was discovered and recognized after her death. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed around the world.
The professional wrestler Colt Cabana is billed as being from "Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois". The Maxwell Street market of the 1960s/1970s is mentioned in the short story "Barbie-Q", by Sandra Cisneros, in her 1991 collection, Woman Hollering Creek. The story is about two Chicana girls who buy fire-damaged Barbie dolls sold at a discount ...
Gatelys Peoples Store was a department store at 11201 S. Michigan Avenue, in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago. It was described as "the biggest store on Michigan Avenue". [1] James Gately purchased the Peoples Store in 1917 and added his name. The store thrived until the late 1960s, when white flight led to widespread disinvestment in ...
The drama movie takes place in the 1960s and follows the lives of local outcasts in a Chicago motorcycle gang called Outlaws MC that become like family. Their lives suddenly change when the club ...
"Swinging London" fashions on Carnaby Street, 1966. The National Archives (United Kingdom). Swedish beatniks in Stockholm, 1965. Fashion of the 1960s featured a number of diverse trends, as part of a decade that broke many fashion traditions, adopted new cultures, and launched a new age of social movements.
The West Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is joined by the North and South Sides. The West Side contains communities that are of historical and cultural importance to the history and development of Chicago. On the flag of Chicago, [1] the West Side is represented by the central white ...
The Division Street riots were episodes of rioting and civil unrest, which started on June 12 and continued through June 14, 1966. These riots are remembered as a turning point in Puerto Rican civic involvement in Chicago. [1][2] This was the first riot in the United States attributed to Puerto Ricans. [3]