Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit's race riot in 1943 claimed 35 dead, 700 injured. The 1919 race riots in East St. Louis, Ill., cost 47 lives...
HILLSIDE, ILL., Melody Top: Camelot, starring Earl Wrightson...
HIGHLAND PARK, ILL., Tenthouse Theater: Margaret Whiting and Gene Rayburn on the Gypsy caravan...
...places and were put on the rolls. In Alabama's Marengo County, a registrar estimated that two-thirds of the first 50 applicants could neither read nor write. They were enrolled. It was a far cry from the days when Negro college graduates were contemptuously rejected by ill-educated Southern registrars for imagined failure to interpret a fine constitutional point. Surprisingly, there was little outright protest against and no overt interference with last week's registration effort. On the steps of Selma's courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled...
Lake Erie is critically ill, and the symptoms are there for all to see. Beaches that once were gleaming with white sand are covered with smelly greenish slime. The lake's prize fish-walleyes, blue pike, yellow perch and whitefish-have all but disappeared, and the fishing fleets along with them. After surveying their sludgy waters last year, over 1,000,000 irate Ohio citizens petitioned Governor James A. Rhodes to ask for remedial action, and thousands have sent in letters. Wrote one Clevelander: "Our lake is a wastebasket for factories. It is unfit for fish to live...