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African Americans have significantly contributed to the history, culture, and development of Illinois since the early 18th century. The African American presence dates back to the French colonial era where the French brought black slaves to the U.S. state of Illinois early in its history, [3] and spans periods of slavery, migration, civil rights movement, and more.
The California Racial Justice Act of 2020 bars the state from seeking or securing a criminal conviction or imposing a sentence on the basis of race, ethnicity or national origin. The Act, in part, allows a person to challenge their criminal case if there are statistical disparities in how people of different races are either charged, convicted ...
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Racial unrest in Cairo, Illinois; Carterville Mine Riot; Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs; Chicago Black Hawks (American football) Cicero race riot of 1951; Mark Clark (activist)
Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 68 (4): 344–352. JSTOR 40191030. Camara, Afi (2013). Pleading Our Own Cause: The Black Press in Springfield Illinois (1886-2013) Carroll, Fred (2017). Race News: Black Journalists and the Fight for Racial Justice in the Twentieth Century. University of Illinois Press.
The history of Illinois may be defined by several broad historical periods, namely, the pre-Columbian period, the era of European exploration and colonization, its development as part of the American frontier, its early statehood period, growth in the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary Illinois of today.
As Governor Roy Cooper prepares to depart the Executive Mansion, criminal justice advocates are urging him to make use of his broadest set of powers: the ability to grant clemency for state crimes.
Under pressure from a group of 43 district attorneys, who expressed opposition to the act citing the clog of the court system in the state, the North Carolina Senate passed a bill by a 27-14 vote on November 28, 2011, that would have effectively repealed the Racial Justice Act. [2]