January 14th, 1957, 7:43 a.m. A six-story tenement building on West 145th Street in Harlem. The building was old. Built in 1911, narrow hallways, cold radiators, peeling wallpaper, cracked windows, the kind of building that housed working-class black families who had no other options. Families who paid rent on time, who kept quiet, who didn’t complain, who understood that complaining could lead …
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