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NAACP Teams Up for Two South Side Improvement Projects
Two Joliet area NAACP affiliated clubs on the south side completed two projects under the Beautify Joliet program. South Chicago and South Joliet groups installed street markers, funded materials by member donations, and cleaned vacant lots to create safer play spaces. The libraries bookmobile outreach will deliver reading material to neighborhood sections.
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South Side
South Chicago
South Joliet Streets
Beautify
National Association For Advancement of Colored People
L. H. Holman
D. A. Harris
South Chicago Street
Chicago
Sandra Harris
Mary McDonald
Dorothy Fuqua
Pauline Crudup
Joliet Public Library Library
South Side Neight Group