Archive for the ‘Segregation and Desegregation’ Category
Edward Robb Ellis Interview with Paul Robeson
Archive Entry Date: 04/19/1947
An in-depth interview of Paul Robeson, freshly banned from Peoria
Peoria Bans Robeson; He Vows to Sing
Archive Entry Date: 04/18/1947
The Cold War heated up in Peoria when radical singer Paul Robeson came to town
Inter-Racial Committee Pickets 6 Restaurants
Archive Entry Date: 06/15/1946
Restaurant managers boasted defiantly of improved sales after Bradley University's CORE chapter picketed their establishments
Letter from Hazel Pritcher to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 06/03/1946
CORE broadened its fight for racial justice by taking on a high school's staging of a blackface minstrel show
Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 07/21/1945
Its membership growing, Peoria's CORE aimed to desegregate public pools as well as local restaurants
Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser
Archive Entry Date: 05/16/1945
"Sit-down strikes" in eating establishments were the first protests organized by Peoria's CORE chapter
Letter from George Houser to Dick Trotter
Archive Entry Date: 04/13/1945
When an “interracial action group” formed in Peoria, the president of the Congress of Racial Equality offered his support
Carver Center Is Dedicated
Archive Entry Date: 12/11/1944
For its founders, the Carver Center promised to inaugurate “the postwar of tomorrow”
Center Fund Drive Opens
Archive Entry Date: 12/02/43
The Center Fund Drive launched with hopes of raising $15,000 in a week.