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...cannot help but agree with the facts you exposed. JOANN GAWORSKI College of St. Francis Joliet...
More than You. No sooner did Dick Daley sit down than Dr. Lucien Holman, 42, a Joliet dentist who heads all N.A.A.C.P. activities in Illinois, stood up. "I don't agree with anything Mayor Daley said," cried Holman. "Everybody knows there are ghettos here. And if those of you from Mississippi think you're the first persons ever bitten by police dogs, you're wrong. That little technique began right here in the sovereign state of Illinois. And we've got more segregated schools here than you've got in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana combined...
...handy man with words, Lewis called the 24th Ward "a socio-economic garbage heap." He was fond of pointing out that "there are 75.000 people squeezed into my ward, more than Joliet or Waukegan, and almost as many as Springfield, Ill. We have the highest percentage of high-school dropouts and the highest percentage of people on relief. We have the highest rate of unemployment, the highest rate of juvenile delinquency and a very high rate of apathy and disillusionment." Lewis even moved actively against the miseries of overpopulation. During his last campaign he had his precinct workers distribute "little...
...another houseboat owner from their moorings-to string together the sort of dialogue in which Bissell slyly captures the murmur of the heartland. But at book's end-after Frank has married a girl with the greatest body in the Illinois River valley from Grafton clear to Joliet-it is clear that Author Bissell simply has not tried very hard...