Cairo Illinois A Symbol Of Racial Polarization

Cairo, Illinois: A Symbol of Racial Polarization is a comprehensive report on the racial tension in Cairo, Illinois in the early 1970s. The report provides a detailed analysis of the causes and effects of the conflict, and offers recommendations for resolving the issues. This book is recommended for anyone interested in the history of civil rights in the United States. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Cairo, Illinois: A Symbol of Racial Polarization: Recommendations Based on the Cairo Hearing, March 23-25, 1972 Although in the past few years the focus of attention has been on the city of Cairo, that city must be seen as part of a larger economically depressed region encompassing several counties in southern Illinois. Thus, any discussion of Cairo must, of necessity, reflect the situation in the surrounding area. Despite its advantageous location at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, Cairo has experienced a steady economic decline since 1930. As jobs were lost, largely due to the mechanization of the river trade industry and new industrial and commercial opportunities failed to materialize, the population decline accelerated, resulting in a loss of 50 percent of the population between 1950 and 1970. According to the 1970 census, Cairo had residents of whom percent) were black. The lack of economic opportunities in the area has caused most of the young people, as well as many of the older residents of both races to leave the city and has led to a proportionate increase in the number of low-income families and the elderly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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