Documents Tagged ‘Bill Conver’
Black Peorians Dropout in Alarming Numbers
Archive Entry Date: 11/2/1964
By November 1964, a 77% high school dropout rate beset black Peoria - higher than Chicago and Springfield.
Churches, Businessmen, Aid Negro Cause Here
Archive Entry Date: 11/17/1960
Local churches and businessmen organized the first Trade Fair for black high school and college students
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?
Teacher Gives Wisdom, Challenge To Negroes
Archive Entry Date: 11/10/1960
A Peorian teacher emphasized education in the fight for desegregation
Story Of A Failure…Why Didn’t Our Negroes Answer?
Archive Entry Date: 11/9/1960
Why did so few blacks in Peoria respond to a newspaperman's basic question?
Harper Known Nationally For His Work
Archive Entry Date: 4/17/1957
Carver Center director Henry Harper was a gentle man with bulldog tenacity
Housing Effort By Tenants Succeeds, Fails
Archive Entry Date: 04/16/1957
A case study in white resistance to desegregated housing in Peoria
Some of Most Persistent Myths Explode
Archive Entry Date: 04/15/1957
With liberal conviction, the Peoria Journal Star debunked the myth of scientific racial superiority
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