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Although civil rights leaders including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. supported the designation of Oct. 22, 1963, as “Freedom Day,” its success was not guaranteed. Older Black organizations and clergy didn’t relish asking parents to back a one-day school boycott to demonstrate that segregated schools weren’t limited to the South. It was politically dangerous for anyone beholden to the Boss, Mayor ...

Sen. Greg Albritton presented the Bay Minette Public Library with a check for $18,000 from the Legislative Community Service Fund. This contribution will be used to purchase books, eBooks and …

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was arrested in Chicago 60 years ago this week. Then a 21-year-old University of Chicago student, Sanders was charged with resisting arrest during an Aug. 12, 1963 demonstration in Englewood — along with comedian Dick Gregory and 54 others — against the use of mobile classrooms in the city’s public schools. Chicago Public Schools superintendent Benjamin Willis ...

A truck towing what appeared to be a pair of house trailers pulled up to Parker Elementary School on Jan. 15, 1962. The aluminum structures, ordered by the Chicago Board of Education and built by Colonial Mobile Homes Manufacturing Co. of Hammond, were unhitched and joined together, creating a “mobile classroom.” The mobile home company’s president, Dominic Conte, was proud of the ...

Researchers say that exercising in the 30s, 40s, and 50s helps prevent chronic disease in the 70s and 80s.