Archive for the ‘Segregation and Desegregation’ Category
Negro Effect on Property Put To Test
Archive Entry Date: 08/07/1963
A newspaper investigation found property values rarely dropped when a “colored family” moved in
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”
March Until Bus Company Capitulates
Archive Entry Date: 06/20/1963
Racist hiring practices were targeted in a NAACP-organized bus boycott
The Enchanted Cage
Archive Entry Date: 11/27/1962
Carver Center teens, including later Black Panther Mark Clark, rehearsed a scene from “The Enchanted Cage”
The Friendship Tea
Archive Entry Date: 06/13/1962
Juliette Whittaker was among the ladylike faces of this Peorian Civil Rights initiative
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?
“The Negro Situation in Peoria”
Archive Entry Date: 10/12/1960
The PJ Star argued everyone was "somewhat to blame" for the high black drop-out rate
Human Relations Report Cites Negro Gains Here
Archive Entry Date: 01/26/1959
Despite recent accomplishments, overcrowding in the “black belt” of Peoria remained a problem
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
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
Carver Center Steps Toward Expansion
Archive Entry Date: 08/21/56
Pryor's time onstage at Carver was the era of its greatest expansion
A Gallery of the Carver Center’s First 10 Years
Archive Entry Date: 1954
Modern dance and checkers, jazz and basketball — all were on tap at the Carver Center
Red Feather Agency Builds Useful Life
Archive Entry Date: 10/15/1952
The Carver Center was thriving in 1952 — and would-be juvenile delinquent “Bob” was proof
John Clark Discovers Negroes Now Talking
Archive Entry Date: 10/11/1952
A reporter dropped into Bris Collins's tavern to take black America's pulse — and met Richard's “Uncle Dickie”
Pursuit of Freedom
Archive Entry Date: 11/1949
The mural, a mix of uplift and militancy, that faced Richard onstage at the Carver Center
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
Crucifixion of Paul Robeson Blasted by Press in India
Archive Entry Date: 05/24/1947
A newspaper in New Delhi expressed outrage over Paul Robeson's ban in Peoria
From Fred Douglass to Robeson, Peoria Hasn’t Improved
Archive Entry Date: 05/03/1947
Peoria's ban of Paul Robeson echoed its chilly reception of Frederick Douglass 65 years before
Strange Case of Paul Robeson
Archive Entry Date: 05/03/1947
A condemnation of Paul Robeson's behavior in Peoria from The Pittsburgh Courier, an African-American newspaper.
Story Behind the Barring of Robeson
Archive Entry Date: 05/03/1947
A detailed autopsy of the banning of Paul Robeson in Peoria, from the Baltimore Afro-American