Document Type
Newsletter
Publication Year
1961
Excerpt
Ninety-two Negroes who were housed in the Douglas Hotel on Chicago's South Side were left homeless when the building caught fire on June 26th. The Red Cross came to the help of the victims, largely women and children, and before too very long they were huddled in the basement of Holy Cross Lutheran Church eating a warm meal which the women of the congregation had prepared for them. Outside of the church, however, a crowd gathered with hearts and attitudes far different from those serving tables inside. Some said there were one hundred. Others estimated three hundred fifty. But the mob was loud and the words were ugly. There were threats to break the stained glass windows in the church - even to bomb out the Negroes.
Recommended Citation
Lutheran Human Relations Association of America, "The Vanguard (Vol. 8, No. 6), July 1961" (1961). The Vanguard. 63.
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