Oral History

Abstract:

In this interview my Grandmother, Yvette Haefner, remembered the race riots she lived through in her childhood and it showed its effect on a non African Americans.

Research:

Rumors then spread throughout North Philadelphia that a pregnant black woman had been beaten to death by white police officers. Later that evening, and throughout the next two days, angry mobs looted and burned mostly white-owned businesses in North Philadelphia, mainly along Columbia Avenue. Outnumbered, the police response was to withdraw from the area rather than aggressively confront the rioters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Philadelphia_race_riot