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Mark Clark’s body in morgue unclaimed; family never notified

by contributor • December 1, 2017 • 3 Comments

BY LAWRENCE J. MAUSHARD Editor’s Note: Peorian Mark Clark was 22 and a member of the Peoria NAACP and leader of the Peoria Chapter of the Illinois Black Panther Party. He was running a BPP free breakfast program for children…

Racism is measurable, quantifiable, toxic Poverty, discrimination and injustice are the planned, intended consequences of racism, a system of beliefs sustained by fake assertions. Joe Madison, host of the Sirius talk radio show “The Black Eagle,” spoke at the Peoria…

Last month, Rev. Hightower wrote about the Civil Rights Act signed in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act signed in 1965. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected president, and Sen. Mitch McConnell said, “We are going to do all we…

Sharon Crews

December 6, 2017

Thank you so much for telling this story. Mark was one of my first students at Roosevelt Jr. High. I remember him as a very kind young man. My favorite memory of Mark seeing me downtown and hearing him holler, “Hi, Miss Crews.” I heard that many times from others, but Mark was the first. When Mark died, I was saddened because I believed there was something unfair about his death. At that point in history, I didn’t have the benefit of the hindsight that I now have about racial issues.

1. Sarita Williams
  
  January 17, 2018
  
  HE indeed was a very good person, I wanted to go with them but for whatever reason I couldn’t. He and I did so much for the MOVEMENT, we wanted to help from the picket lines to the free food we would go and ask for the program. It’s been so long but that day I will never forget. My name is Sarita Hines-Williams. They also tried to kill me too. So nice to talk to someone who knew him because I do still think about Him quite often.
  Sincerely,
  Sarita Hines-Williams
  
Daniel E. McMeen

December 31, 2017

The Peoria Journal Star, as I remember it as an avid but rather uninformed reader back in the sixties, combined with the editorial stance of WMBD radio to set the tone for the entire region between Chicago and St. Louis. I would describe that tone as reactionary to progressive change, and hostile to minorities and liberal causes. I notice that one organization I support called Citizens Climate Lobby has numerous chapters in northeastern Illinois and several in the St. Louis area, and one or two in Champaign-Urbana… but none in a large area of central Illinois. Predictably, central Illinois is a barren wasteland mostly bereft off the variety of political opinion found in large urban and university communities. No, we cannot fault the liberal media for this condition. Rather the responsibility lies at the feet of the ownership of PJS Newspaper and WMBD (FOX) Radio. I imagine they are quite satisfied with their accomplishments too, but the rest of the public is not well served.

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Mark Clark’s body in morgue unclaimed; family never notified

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