Documents Tagged ‘segregation’
The Friendship Tea
Archive Entry Date: 06/13/1962
Juliette Whittaker was among the ladylike faces of this Peorian Civil Rights initiative
How Much of Racial Inequity Can Negroes Overcome?
Archive Entry Date: 11/11/1960
Who was to blame for low black social mobility — Peoria or blacks themselves?
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”
Right To Vote Their Problem, Leaders Say
Archive Entry Date: 04/09/1957
Low black voter turnout was behind black underrepresentation in Peoria politics
The Story Of The Negro In Peoria — Chapter 1
Archive Entry Date: 04/05/1957
Sparked by the postwar surge in Peoria's black population, the Journal Star surveyed the state of black Peoria
Paul Robeson Defies Peoria Ban
Archive Entry Date: 04/26/1947
The Chicago Defender sympathetically reported on Robeson's defiance of Peoria's conservatives