ILLINOIS: Ugly Nights in Cicero

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Harvey Clark was still determined to move in. Said he: "They destroyed everything we owned, everything we had accumulated in nine years of marriage—even our marriage certificate. I sure didn't think all this would happen over one Negro family."

* Only 3½ miles from the Oak Park, Ill. home of Dr. Percy Lavon Julian, famed Negro chemist. Hoodlums tried to burn the Julian home in November, tossed a bomb in the front yard last month.

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