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A History of School Desegregation on the Far Southwest Side

by Ismael Cuevas Jr. February 17, 2021July 23, 2021

uring the summer of 1997 my family moved from Gage Park to the Scottsdale neighborhood on Chicago’s far Southwest Side. Twenty years before my family became one of the first Mexican families on the block, the beast of ignorance roamed the streets of Ashburn and Scottsdale as the area became the scene of horrific demonstrations […]

Greening Committee. African Heritage Garden. Photo Credit: Sarah Joyce
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