The Camille Derose Story

Chicago: De Rose Pub. Co., 1953. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo with red brushed cloth; red white and black jacket; 348 pages: illustrations, map (on lining paper); 23 cm DJ is very good (+) with slightest wear at folds and very mild edgewear; a very good to near fine copy with small bump to right corner and mild edgewear . Hardcover.

"Finally you will learn the true entire story behind the surging Cicero race riots - a riot which made Ms DeRose the focal point of all America. What caused it! What lead up to it! What were its effects! No mature, wide-awake adult will want to miss this unforgetrtable story of one woman against the world. Sensational! Strange! True!" --Jacket copy. "The Cicero Riot of 1951 occurred from July 11-12, 1951, when a mob of approximately 4,000 whites attacked an apartment building an African American family had recently moved into in Cicero, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. The events leading up to the riot began in June 1951 when Mrs. Camille DeRose, owner of the building at 6139-43 W. 19th Street in Cicero, rented an apartment to Henry E. Clark Jr, an African American World War II veteran and graduate of Fisk University, his wife, Johnetta Clark, and their two children in an all-white neighborhood." --blackpast.org

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