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The lynching of David Wyatt is one example of the racialized mob violence taking place in the nation. As an educator, Wyatt was a staple in the community. Since Reconstruction , black teachers "acted as community leaders, interracial diplomats, and builders of black institutions". [ 16 ]
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Title page of the 1850 first-edition publishing of the Banditti Of The Prairies by Edward Bonney. The Banditti of the Prairie, also known as The Banditti, Prairie Pirates, Prairie Bandits, and Pirates of the Prairie, in the U.S. states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio and the Territory of Iowa, were a group of loose-knit outlaw gangs, during the early to mid-19th century.
"The Illinois Black Codes". Illinois Periodicals Online: 6. Armfield, Felix L. (2000). "Fire on the Prairies: The 1895 Spring Valley Race Riot". Journal of Illinois History. 3 (3): 185– 200. Merithew, Caroline A. Waldron (2003). "Making the Italian Other: Blacks, Whites, and the In between in the 1895 Spring Valley, Illinois, Race Riot".
Despite this, Joseph and his younger brother Joshua were removed from a foster family and returned to Amanda, who killed Joseph with an electrical cord. [1] The circumstances of Wallace's death and the ensuing public outcry precipitated large changes in the Illinois child welfare system and the Cook County juvenile court .
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September 27, 1974 – Once complicit with Chicago Outfit activity, area businessman and federal witness Daniel Seifert was gunned down at his Bensenville, Illinois, plastics factory, in front of his wife and youngest son for deciding to testify in a federal investigation as to his knowledge of an embezzled and "laundered" $1.4 million from the ...
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