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I don't think up North was quite as bad as down South, but during those days there also was staunch & vehement racism up North too. As Dr. King attested to, when he saw the marches through Cicero Ill. Cicero then was a heavily mobbed-up community adjacent to Chicago's rough & tumble West Side, with a fairly strong Italian-American presence. Cicero also was infamous for being Al Capone's HQ after he got chased out of Chicago proper, and it was wide-open with Outfit run 24/7 vice. The local police were completely in the Outfit's pocket. Anything went, in Cicero during those days.Mansfield TX, as it turned out, was second only to Little Rock in terms of school segregation protests...in FAVOR OF.
I had no idea that the sleepy little town of 68 thousand souls that we moved to had such a sordid and horrifying past.
But due to an extremely heavy national guard presence, despite initial Cicero Police reticence to assist, injuries were relatively minimal.
Then there was Skokie and Marquette Park too, but I won't overload you with video. It's all there online, if you're interested.