This photo is a very porr quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the Chicago Defender.
]]>Looking east from Detroit Ave over destroyed neighborhoods towards the Tulsa Pressed Brick Company, Booker T. Washington high school is on the right in front of the brick company. The Chicago Defender article says that the three posts were Dr Thompson's house at 521 N. Detroit Ave. They also match the brickwork of Dr Bridgewater's house at 507 N. Detroit. If Dr. Thompson's house, the posts to the left indicate the position of the murdered Dr Jackson's house at 523 N. Detroit Ave.
This photo is a very porr quality reproduction from a microfilmed copy of the Chicago Defender.
The reasons for its burning are debated, but it was believed to have held a large weapons cache, and that there were people shooting from it during the defense of Greenwood.
]]>Mount Zion Baptist Church, which had only recently been completed and paid for before the riot.
The reasons for its burning are debated, but it was believed to have held a large weapons cache, and that there were people shooting from it during the defense of Greenwood.