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Roxanna Norfleet Case

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Photos of a white police officer beating a black female student, in high school, with his club during a school crisis, with her laying on the ground helplessly was the cause that led to multiple protest throughout the African American community in Chicago. On April 25, 1969, Roxanna Norfleet a seventeen-year-old African American student, was one of many students that were abused by policeman when racial comments stated a rumble between the white and black students at Tilden High School. Approximately two hundred police officers and a mob of approximately one hundred hateful whites gather around the school as soon as they heard about the conflict that was taking place. The policemen, who were all white, stated to stomp and kick on the unarmed

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