Community Questioned as Hyde Park Gangs Spread Fear
An editorial from the Hyde Park Herald addresses rising gang influence on Black youth in Hyde Park-Kenwood Chicago. It cites fear among Black teens and parents while noting white complicity and calls for white leaders to intervene and protect integrated community life.
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Cicero
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Hyde Park- Kenwood
Bruce Sagan
Lee Botts
Frank Lett
Jean Garner Jacobs
Gary Orman
Edward Sweerington
Fred Fuller Bennett
Clarence P Dresser
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S. Harper
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Alderman Seeks Ideas to Halt School Fire Alarms
Fifth Ward Alderman Leon Despres questions how to stop false fire alarms amid school boycotts. He cites Octobers high false alarm total at Hyde Park High and reviews methods tried by the Chicago Fire Department. Fire Chief Sullivan notes moving alarm boxes to classrooms cut false alarms at Harrison High. the Board of Education tests this at another high school. Suggestions invited.
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Fifth Ward
Leon Despres
Hyde Park High School
Ment
David Sullivan
Board of Education
Harrison High School
Readers debate guilt by association in race coverage
A reader challenges editorials on the Ireland Mikva race and defends civil rights record of Hubert Humphrey, Johnson and others while warning of alleged Marxist influence and fascist threats in international politics. The letter criticizes guilt by association and defends ACLU as non communist while praising civil rights progress.
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Herald
Wheeler Sammons
Humphrey
Macao
China
Gibraltar
Mediterranean Sea
Sammons
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