It was fairly quiet on the Southern front, but in the North last week disturbing racial disorders boiled in the nation's two biggest cities.
When three Negro families moved into "Canaryville," an old Irish, all-white neighborhood on Chicago's seamy South Side, whites hurled rocks and bottles at the newcomers' windows. In ugly retaliation, a band of Negro youths smashed a window of a passing automobile, injuring a two-year-old white child. When the father got out to protest, the Negroes beat him with fists and baseball bats. More than 100 police cars rolled into the neighborhood to keep order, but by...
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