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Three days of unrest in Dixmoor in 1964
1964
Dixmoor, Illinois
In August 1964 the owner of a Dixmoor liquor store wrestled a woman to the ground over an accusation of shoplifting and had her arrested. Black residents picketed the store, then looted and attacked it, and fires spread to buildings nearby across three days. The village, called Specialville before it took its present name, is wedged in among Harvey, Posen, Blue Island and Riverdale.
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