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The police, fire department, and most city jobs were still overwhelmingly dominated by whites. African-Americans were allegedly harassed by the police and unjustly targeted. On July 16, 1967, Robert Hunt, a 19-year-old black soldier home on leave, was allegedly found hanged in the Cairo police station.
The county had the second-highest number of lynchings of African Americans in all of Illinois. [5] The most notorious of these was the lynching of Will James before a crowd of white spectators estimated at 10,000, in the county seat of Cairo on November 11, 1909. James was accused of murdering a young white woman.
The Cairo Bulletin; Cairo Community Unit School District 1; Cairo Dodgers; Cairo Egyptians; Cairo I-57 Bridge; Cairo Mississippi River Bridge; Cairo Ohio River Bridge; Cairo Rail Bridge; Cairo Regional Airport; Cairo and Vincennes Railroad; Racial unrest in Cairo, Illinois
The General Assembly chartered a company to found a town there in 1837 under the name of "Cairo, Illinois", [1]: 24 and by 1841 Cairo had two thousand residents. [ 1 ] : 27 Nearly all the residents abandoned the town following an 1842 flood, [ 1 ] : 32 but a newly constructed levee protected the site during the Great Flood of 1844 , [ 1 ] : 35 ...
Thebes is a village in and the former county seat of Alexander County, Illinois, United States. The population was 208 at the 2020 census , down from 436 at the 2010 census. [ 3 ] It is part of the Cape Girardeau – Jackson , MO -IL Metropolitan Statistical Area .
According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Cairo Precinct has a total area of 9.11 square miles (23.59 km 2), of which 6.99 square miles (18.10 km 2) (or 76.72%) is land and 2.12 square miles (5.49 km 2) (or 23.28%) is water. [3] It contains the southernmost point in Illinois.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alexander County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.
Battery D was organized Cairo, Illinois on December 17, 1861 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment. The battery was attached to District of Cairo to February 1862. 1st Division, District of Cairo, February 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, District of West Tennessee, to April 1862. Artillery, 1st Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July ...