Documents Tagged ‘Mayor Robert G. Day’
Mayor Day Admits Discrimination in Peoria
Archive Entry Date: 07/03/1963
Unemployment and poor housing were problems that couldn't be solved by demonstrations, said Peoria's Mayor
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”
‘No Racial Tension Here,’ Says Mayor
Archive Entry Date: 06/21/1963
Black Peorians were staging a bus boycott, but Peoria's Mayor claimed there was “no racial tension here”
Day v. Illinois Liquor Commission
Archive Entry Date: 1/24/1963
Mayor Day did everything in his power to shut down Harold Parker's club