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Cicero Riots
Associated Press

1951

Cicero Riots

After a young Black couple and their two children moved into an apartment in all-white Cicero, Illinois, a white mob ransacked their home, vandalizing their belongings and ran the family out of town resulting in interference from the National Guard.

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