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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09718.03 Author/Creator: United Press International Place Written: Chicago, Illinois Type: Photograph Date: 10 June 1965 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.5 x 25.4 cm. Order a Copy

One telephoto entitled, "Chicago" taken by UPI dated June 10, 1965. Image is of protesters walking down Balboa Drive in Chicago. They are pictured marching hand-in-hand in rows. Wire transfer information states that the protest was organized against school segregation and the rehiring of school superintendent Benjamin Willis.

Benjamin Willis had implemented the use of trailers, critically known as "Willis Wagons" as classrooms in over-crowded, predominately African American schools and refused to allow African American students to attend predominately white schools with extra space.

Willis, Benjamin, 1901-1988

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