The dingy Douglas Hotel in the slums of Chicago's South Side was home to the no Negro men, women and children who rented its rooms and apartments for $7.50 a week and up. In one of those apartments late one afternoon last week a fire broke out and swiftly spread. The Douglas tenants scrambled down rickety fire escapes, stood outside dazed and weeping—and counting themselves lucky to be alive. But their troubles had only begun.
Checking a list of available shelters, Red Cross officials decided on the Holy Cross Lutheran Church, two miles...
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