Documents Tagged ‘Civil Rights Movement in Peoria’
Strange Case of Paul Robeson
Archive Entry Date: 05/03/1947
A condemnation of Paul Robeson's behavior in Peoria from The Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper.
Edward Robb Ellis Interview with Paul Robeson
Archive Entry Date: 04/19/1947
An in-depth interview of Paul Robeson, freshly banned from Peoria
Inter-Racial Committee Pickets 6 Restaurants
Archive Entry Date: 06/15/1946
Restaurant managers boasted defiantly of improved sales after Bradley University's CORE chapter picketed their establishments
Letter from Hazel Pritcher to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 06/03/1946
CORE broadened its fight for racial justice by taking on a high school's staging of a blackface minstrel show
Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 07/21/1945
Its membership growing, Peoria's CORE aimed to desegregate public pools as well as local restaurants