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1962 - University of Chicago Students Protest Segregated Housing

Student activists at the University of Chicago, supported by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), launched demonstrations from January 23 to February 5, 1962, to protest discriminatory practices in off-campus housing. CORE accused the university of operating segregated apartment buildings, sparking a pivotal moment in student-led civil rights activism on campus.

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