1. 'Black Students Didn't Feel Like They Had A Voice' Lacy Scarmana 12:56

Joy and Gaye Shannon were new to the Quad Cities when they became students at Rock Island High School in the early 1970s. It was a time when political tension and unfair treatment of African American students persisted in schools. In 1972, this angst resulted in a week of unrest at Rock Island High School — often referred to as the Rocky riots.

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