The Shorefront Legacy Center, a small archive in a church basement in Evanston, Ill., collects papers and objects that tell the history of the city’s Black community.
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A small archive in Evanston, Illinois, has been documenting the history of Black life in the suburbs north of Chicago for almost 30 years. Now President Trump has brought his fight against racial justice efforts to the archive’s doorstep. NPR’s Adrian Florido reports.
ADRIAN FLORIDO, BYLINE: To visit the Shorefront Legacy Center, you go
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