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Sit-down Protests in Chicago Police Round Up 150
Demonstrators marching on City Hall are mass arrested as police push to clear a Grant Park sit down. Leaders including James Farmer and Sidney Finley are detained. arrests total over 150 with many loaded into paddy wagons. Daley urged Willis to be dismissed, Willis to retire by 1966.
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Chicago
UPI
Prairie Avenue
Grantside
City Hall
Sydney Finley
James Farmer
Nachairman
Congress O National Association For the
Dick Gregory
Albert Raby
Gregory
Robert Lynskey
Lake Michigan
Richard J. Daley
Benjamin C. Willis
Willis
Jong
Grant Park
Columbus
Balboa