Peoria
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Becoming Richard Pryor
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Peoria: An Introduction
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1919–1941: “Roarin’ Peoria”
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Civil Rights Movement: Where Has Peoria Been?
Archive Entry Date: 05/12/1974
Twenty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the Journal Star examined the arc of the city's Civil Rights Movement
Gwynn Says There IS Racial Tension in Peoria
Archive Entry Date: 06/22/1963
Peoria's NAACP president argued that racial tension suffused “almost every phase of life in Peoria”
Types of Work Vary — Reach to Professions
Archive Entry Date: 4/11/1957
Juliette Whittaker was among the professionals spotlighted in “What Negroes do for a living in Peoria”