Queer Clout
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Timothy Stewart-Winter. Queer Clout
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Margot Canaday, Glenda Gilmore, Michael Kazin, Stephen Pitti, and Thomas J. Sugrue
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The city’s obsession with the Schuessler-Peterson murders sheds light on how race and class determined the political meanings of violence against children. Daley frequently repeated an offer of a $10,000 reward to anyone who helped solve the triple murder. After the Schuessler boys’ father died of a heart attack several weeks later, Daley even proposed that the city provide “some program of aid” to the grieving widow. It is instructive to compare Daley’s response to the triple murder with his handling of the case of another young Chicagoan slain in a widely publicized murder during Daley’s first year as mayor. Daley proposed no reward in the murder of Emmett Till, the fourteen-year-old Chicagoan killed two months earlier—albeit in Mississippi—in the twentieth century’s best-known lynching, and no municipal outlay to support his mother, the grieving Mamie Till Bradley, though she, too, was a single mother. (Daley did wire President Dwight Eisenhower, asking the federal government to become involved in the investigation.70) At least one letter published in the black-owned Chicago Defender invoked both crimes in a broad indictment of society’s treatment of children; Mrs. Bradley, the newspaper reported, sent her condolences to the mothers of the three murdered white boys.71
Inkblots and Individual Rights
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