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Back taxes have Percy Julian home in peril

by Stacey Sheridan September 28, 2021September 29, 2021

Just before chemist Percy Julian and his family were to move into their Oak Park home in 1950, someone broke in, poured kerosene on its floors, then threw a firebomb through the bedroom window belonging to his 6-year-old daughter Faith. The racist attack failed to intimidate the Julian family into abandoning their plans to live […]

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