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Sandra Jackson-Opoku

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Police try to protect Donald and Betty Howard as they bring their household goods to their new apartment in formerly all-white Trumbull Park at East 105th Street and South Yates Avenue in 1953.
Chicago’s Next Voices
Meeting Black author of 'Trumbull Park' sets a South Side child on a writing career
Sandra Jackson-Opoku’s family moved into the Trumbull Park Homes in the ‘50s, where they encountered hatred from white neighbors and where Frank London Brown chronicled the struggles of Black lives and desegregation.
By Sandra Jackson-Opoku