Welcome to my project exploring stories from the riots that erupted across middle America in the 1960s. My desire is to center the complex narratives of the residents whose voices were often silenced in favor of the simple summary that “Black people destroyed their own neighborhoods”. The truth is much more interesting, and I’d like to tell you all about it. If you believe that history matters, and that regular Black folks- the elders, the number runners, the bar owners, the factory workers, the pastors, the welfare mothers, and the kids who navigated a Jim Crow North, still have some things to teach us about our ongoing Black Freedom Movement, please support.

This project will elevate the quiet, but consequential voices of Black people at the center of life-changing riots that erupted across Middle America during the 1960’s. My aim is to correct the condemning narrative that plagues the historical and modern struggle of Black people in this country.

Indeed, Black people have and continue to demand, not destroy. Black people tear down injustices, not terrorize communities. Black people mobilize, not mob. I will shine the brightest light on the courage of the smallest of Black people who actually dug the path all of us still in the Movement march on; yesterday, and today.,