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Uptown Celebrates Winthrop Avenue Pioneers, Remembers the Segregation They Faced

Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Uptown Celebrates Winthrop Avenue Pioneers, Remembers the Segregation They Faced

By Lorraine Swanson, editor, Lake Effect News For the generations of McKeevers, Browns, Clarks, Jenkins, Thurmans, Austins, Grays, Lewises, Joneses, Colliers and Bakers that grew up on the 4600 block of North Winthrop, most thought it was just a place where their folks wanted to live. The sons and daughters of railroad porters, department store clerks... »

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