Compromise proposals on Hyde Park Kenwood high school clash
The piece outlines three rival compromise plans for a deteriorating Hyde Park Kenwood Woodlawn high school. One side argues remodeling the current site to 3 500 students will fix overcrowding while remaining integrated. A second plan adds a 3 750 student school and moves some students elsewhere. The third proposes two 2 000 student high schools split by Woodlawn Avenue to graft limited integration, with Woodlawn needing new facilities.
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Hyde Park-Kenwood
Woodlawn
University of Chicago
Chicago Vocational School
West Woodlawn
Woodlawn Avenue
Hyde Park Herald history and anti integration critique
The Hyde Park Herald outlines staff roles and publication details established in 1882. It questions urban stability versus integration, noting city demographics and a proposed high school with a 75 percent Black and 25 percent White composition.
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Fred Fuller Bennett
Clarence P. Dresser
Hyde Park Herald Inc
S. Harper
Chicago
Telephone
Midway
Post Office
Ill
Promises for 1966 from Chicago Streets and Sanitation
Alderman notes a December budget forecast highlighting Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Fitzpatrick's 1966 pledges. Improvements include expanded twice weekly refuse routes, bulk trash collection, 24 hour central complaints, guaranteed maintenance for refuse trucks, vacuum leaf collectors, boosted street lamp cleaning, and reorganization of 5625 miles of streets into nine districts. A Medicare benefits notice follows.
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Chicago
George Duggan
Woodlawn
Fitzpatrick
Civic Center
Alderman Despres Reviews School Textbook Bias
A reader letter praises Alderman Leon Despres for exposing bias against Negroes in a public school American history textbook. The piece argues textbooks reflect Southern censorship and shape segregation, urging teachers to study recent scholarship and update materials while noting older books remain in use.
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Alderman Leon Despres
Despres
America
Africa
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Bruce Sagan
Florence Goold
Franklin Lett
Mary Louise Stouffer
Jean Garner Jacobs
Howard Neumann
Ralph Wellston
Leon M. Despres
Social Security Office
Social Security Administration
Aldermanic
E. 63Rd Street
Benjamin Solomon
Hyde Park
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