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Institutional Racism

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A yellowed image shows a large three-story school made of brick. it has multiple chimneys, and a fence around the perimeter of the grounds. Blurred human figures can be seen on the sidewalk, they are moving and come across as translucent in this image. A few branches of a tree can be see on the right, they are completely bare. A small amount of snow appears to be on the ground.

Bloomington schools integrated decade after Civil War
Although racially segregated schools are associated with the “Jim Crow” Deep South and the Civi...

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Early African-American doctor faced segregated Twin Cities
African-American physician Eugene G. Covington came to Bloomington about 1900 to open a medical...

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ISU held racially segregated spring dances in the 1930s and ’40s
The racial climate throughout the United States deteriorated steadily in the first quarter of t...

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Local abolitionists faced rage, mob violence
Rev. Levi Spencer came to Bloomington in April 1844, and it’s no exaggeration to say that his n...

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This carte de visite portrait dates to 1864.

Sojourner Truth spoke in Bloomington
One hundred and forty years ago this week, on Sept. 18, 1879, the incomparable Sojourner Truth ...

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‘Black Devils’ earned fame in WW I
During World War I, several dozen Bloomington-Normal residents fought in an African-American re...

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‘Welby and Pearl,’ minstrel act with local roots
For the better part of four decades, friends Jacob Welby Bucher and Charles Carroll Fell of Blo...

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McHistory: 19th Century Cabbie Saw all of Bloomington-Normal Society
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big momen...

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McHistory: Housekeeper for the affluent and the tawdry
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big momen...

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McHistory: Segregation in Bloomington-Normal
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big momen...

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Research

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Post Amerikan
Held by the MCMH and digitized by Eastern Illinois University. The Post Amerikan began publicat...

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