Documents Tagged ‘National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)’


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

Panther Clark Expected Death, Sister Reveals

Archive Entry Date: 12/29/1969

An obituary for Mark Clark — a Peorian Black Panther killed alongside Fred Hampton in a pre-dawn raid by Chicago police in 1969

No Union Men Attend Rights Group Meeting

Archive Entry Date: 03/08/1969

White-dominated construction unions were no-shows at a meeting to integrate building trades

School Protests Suspended For Week

Archive Entry Date: 11/15/1967

After approximately 6,200 total student absences, student demonstrators paused to regroup

120 Negro Students, Suspended Yesterday, Barred

Archive Entry Date: 11/10/1967

120 Manual High School students were barred from returning to class the day after the mass walk-out

200 Students Walk Out in Protest March

Archive Entry Date: 11/09/1967

Teens in the NAACP staged a walk-out to protest inadequate conditions at their school

6 Jailed For Disorderly Conduct

Archive Entry Date: 07/21/1966

The NAACP pressured for school reform with another sit-in — and six were arrested

School Board Agrees To Meet After Singing Sit-In

Archive Entry Date: 07/19/1966

The NAACP staged a singing sit-in to press for changes in school curriculum and employment practices

Fire Bomb Tossed Through Window Of Rehm Barber Shop

Archive Entry Date: 11/23/1964

A barbershop where blacks had been refused service was struck with a Molotov cocktail

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”

Peoria Legion Post Charter Revoked

Archive Entry Date: 08/14/1947

After the Robeson incident, the hammer came down on Peoria's black American Legion post