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[https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cicero-riot/ by Isabel Wilkerson ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | [https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/cicero-riot/ by Isabel Wilkerson ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | ||
On the evening of July 11, 1951, one of the biggest riots in U.S. history began after a young Black couple moved into an apartment in all-white Cicero, Illinois, west of Chicago. The husband, Harvey Clark Jr., was a World War II veteran who migrated to Chicago from Mississippi and was working as a bus driver. | On the evening of July 11, 1951, one of the biggest riots in U.S. history began after a young Black couple moved into an apartment in all-white Cicero, Illinois, west of Chicago. The husband, Harvey Clark Jr., was a World War II veteran who migrated to Chicago from Mississippi and was working as a bus driver. | ||
=====Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City===== | |||
[https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/born-in-flames/ by ZINN EDUCATION PROJECT] | |||
“Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!” That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to encapsulate an entire era in this nation’s urban history. Across that decade, a wave of arson coursed through cities in the United States, destroying entire neighborhoods home to poor communities of color. | |||
