Word: bensley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night last week with two lieutenants, a squad of sergeants and a radio operator, taking walkie-talkie calls from patrolmen stationed for blocks around. The radio crackled: "Post No. 3 reporting, 9:30 p.m. All is peaceful." This reassuring word came from the street outside 10630 South Bensley, where six cops sat in a tin shack, a hole in its roof covered by an old dishpan, warming themselves at a portable stove and ignoring the shrill profanity of a gang of teen-agers across the street. If Post No. 3 had reported trouble (as it sometimes did), hundreds of additional...
...Beginning. No light came from the windows of an apartment at 10630 South Bensley; none has for months. But there were people there. Behind the plywood barrier set up to protect them from bricks and stones were Donald Howard, his wife and their two small children, going about their nightly routine, dinner, the television, bedtime for the kids. So they have been living for many weeks. The Howards are Negroes, the first of their race to become tenants in Trumbull Park. They got the apartment last summer partly because a state law forbids discrimination in public housing, partly because their...