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While Conver highlights the educational hurdles which stymied black progress in Peoria, he also points out the organizations that mobilized to tear those hurdles down. Local organizations like the Association Public Service, a group of leading businessmen in black Peoria, and the Peoria Commission on Human Relations were present to provide job opportunities to the black population. Meanwhile, national organizations like the Urban League were touching down in Peoria to combat stagnancy in education and employment. The story of black Peoria was not simply failure &#8211; it was also one of a community looking to help itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a November 1964 article,\u00a0Journal Star writer Bill Conver conveyed disbelief in a shocking statistic: according to a study from the National Urban League, black Peoria stumbled along with a dismal 77% high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[397,14,368,154,26],"tags":[167,125,164,188,182,382,331,56],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-the-civil-rights-movement-winds-up","category-1963-1969","category-the-fight-to-desegregate","category-the-civil-rights-movement-winds-up","category-schooled","tag-the-negro-in-peoria-series","tag-1960s-civil-rights","tag-bill-conver","tag-civil-rights-movement-in-peoria","tag-education","tag-national-urban-league","tag-peoria-journal-star","tag-school"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Black Peorians Dropout in Alarming Numbers - Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1964\/11\/02\/black-peorians-dropout-in-alarming-numbers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Black Peorians Dropout in Alarming Numbers - Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a November 1964 article,\u00a0Journal Star writer Bill Conver conveyed disbelief in a shocking statistic: according to a study from the National Urban League, black Peoria stumbled along with a dismal 77% high [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1964\/11\/02\/black-peorians-dropout-in-alarming-numbers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Richard Pryor&#039;s Peoria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"1964-11-02T00:00:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-07-02T23:14:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/assets\/BRP.Cover_1-e1416970637481.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"179\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"PaulMooney\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"PaulMooney\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1964\/11\/02\/black-peorians-dropout-in-alarming-numbers\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1964\/11\/02\/black-peorians-dropout-in-alarming-numbers\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"PaulMooney\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/#\/schema\/person\/339764abf4c1caa531f5e0300e9b5983\"},\"headline\":\"Black Peorians Dropout in Alarming Numbers\",\"datePublished\":\"1964-11-02T00:00:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-07-02T23:14:34+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1964\/11\/02\/black-peorians-dropout-in-alarming-numbers\/\"},\"wordCount\":160,\"keywords\":[\"\\\"The Negro in Peoria\\\" series\",\"1960s: Civil Rights\",\"Bill Conver\",\"Civil Rights Movement in Peoria\",\"education\",\"National Urban League\",\"Peoria Journal-Star\",\"school\"],\"articleSection\":[\"1. 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