Following the Hough Riots, the Call and Post reported “Violence and rioting, moving like a plague from city to city last week, spread ‘black death’ among Negroes across the nation.” That same week, racially charged disturbances also occurred in Brooklyn, Chicago, South Bend and San Francisco; Each was confined to deteriorating African American neighborhoods, and black communities suffered nearly all casualties of the violence. | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
"Fire at Intersection of Ansel Avenue and Hough Road, July 19, 1966" appears in: The Hough Uprisings of 1966
