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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.
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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.
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The Cairo page is pretty unorganized & I'd like to work on it a bit. In the opening paragraph it mentions the flood of 2011 with no sources. I found the sources under Post War Prosperity:) The sources cited refer to the 2011 flood, not the levee work done after the 1937 flood. Also, one of the sources goes to someone's webpage. A travel log.
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 .
Future City is an unincorporated community in Alexander County, Illinois, United States. Future City is located along U.S. Route 51 north of Cairo, and south of Urbandale. The town was founded as a suburb of Cairo in the early 1900s and was populated almost entirely by African Americans. Much of the town was damaged during a flood in 1912 but ...