Word: storefronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decaying downtown area of Aurora, an industrial center (pop. 79,000) in northern Illinois. There, for at least 3½ days a week, Balthazar ministers to Aurora's poor-Mexicans, Appalachian whites, Indians and blacks. Indeed, anyone with real or imagined ailments is welcomed at his storefront clinic for medical care- all free of charge...
...alma mater, Loyola University School of Medicine, gave him its esteemed Stritch Medal (previous winners include Heart Transplanter Christiaan Barnard and Astronaut-Physician Joseph Kerwin). The citation called him "a beacon for others in his profession and a promise of hope." Also, a film has been made about his storefront clinic by a group at Southern Illinois University...
Garrity's extraordinary ruling aroused fury in South Boston. That night the N.A.A.C.P.'s storefront headquarters in downtown Boston was firebombed. Next morning whites lined the pavements near South Boston High School, shaking fists and shrieking curses as six buses, with police motorcycle escorts, arrived carrying blacks from Dorchester and Roxbury. Once the students entered the building, passing through metal detectors that searched for concealed weapons, the school erupted with racial fighting. Reporters outside heard the sounds of breaking glass. "It's wild in there," one breathless teacher told them. "They're going crazy." Police finally...
When the Harrises were detected shoplifting (stealing a 49? pair of socks) at a suburban Los Angeles sporting-goods store, Patty, watching from a parked car, sprayed the storefront with rifle bullets to cover their flight...
Leaders of the boycott movement have threatened to expand it this year and to enlarge some storefront "academies"−similar to those that whites established in the South to avoid desegregation−in South Boston, East Boston and Hyde Park. The academies, designed to accommodate 800 students, will charge $575 tuition. Other white parents are trying to enroll their children in parochial and private schools, most of which are already full, or in suburbs and other school districts where they have relatives...