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San Francisco's "Mutually Redeveloped Strategy" To Take Minority-Owned Co-ops
Daniel Landry stood in Gene Suttle Plaza near sidewalk engravings of the names "Rev. Hannibal Williams" and "Mary Helen Rogers," who fought against Redevelopment Western Addition "Black Removal." I followed his wistful gaze to the top of the Fillmore Auditorium where someone in the post-earthquake 1920 Fillmore heyday had perched on a scaffold painting "Majestic Theater" in white on the now-faded bricks. "I would walk home from Raphael Weill Elementary School, see that sign, and wonder about the '40s and '50s jazz era," he reminisced.
It was a splendorous flash in time. In the blocks surrounding the famous auditorium before Janis torched, Jay Leno killed, and Ted Nugent recently showcased, music rang from every corner.
As teenagers, Sugar Pie De Santo and her cousin, Etta James, practiced duets on their porch. Dressed to kill in minks and suits, folks strutted and strolled the crowded night streets. At the jazz clubs - Billie, Ella, Trane, and Monk --- played and sang up a storm.
Like the lighted arches with hanging glass globes, melted to scrap for the 1940s War Effort, the Fillmore clubs and their exploding energy were bulldozed into oblivion. Today, jazz pours from the doors of the one remaining venue, Rasselas On Fillmore, keeping the memory alive.
Rather than see the Victorian jewel housing Jimbo's Bop City at 1690 Post torn down to make way for the Japantown complex, activist Essie Collins petitioned the Redevelopment Agency to move the building intact around the corner to 1712 Fillmore.
There a branch of world-famous Marcus Books, devoted to African American literature, established in Oakland in 1960 by Drs. Raye and Julian Richardson, was installed in its San Francisco location.
Dr. Raye Richardson, Chair of the San Francisco State Black Studies Department, and her husband, Dr. Julian Richardsom, journalism professor there, were recognized by Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union with Doctoral degrees in Humanity and Letters. Their daughter, Karen, San Francisco manager, said proudly, "Marcus Books has a good reputation because of 'Raye and Rich's' incredible integrity."
The Redevelopment Agency forced one of Julian Richardson's publishing companies and other African American businesses to relocate from Fillmore street.
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As teenagers, Sugar Pie De Santo and her cousin, Etta James, practiced duets on their porch. Dressed to kill in minks and suits, folks strutted and strolled the crowded night streets. At the jazz clubs - Billie, Ella, Trane, and Monk --- played and sang up a storm.
Like the lighted arches with hanging glass globes, melted to scrap for the 1940s War Effort, the Fillmore clubs and their exploding energy were bulldozed into oblivion. Today, jazz pours from the doors of the one remaining venue, Rasselas On Fillmore, keeping the memory alive.
Rather than see the Victorian jewel housing Jimbo's Bop City at 1690 Post torn down to make way for the Japantown complex, activist Essie Collins petitioned the Redevelopment Agency to move the building intact around the corner to 1712 Fillmore.
There a branch of world-famous Marcus Books, devoted to African American literature, established in Oakland in 1960 by Drs. Raye and Julian Richardson, was installed in its San Francisco location.
Dr. Raye Richardson, Chair of the San Francisco State Black Studies Department, and her husband, Dr. Julian Richardsom, journalism professor there, were recognized by Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union with Doctoral degrees in Humanity and Letters. Their daughter, Karen, San Francisco manager, said proudly, "Marcus Books has a good reputation because of 'Raye and Rich's' incredible integrity."
The Redevelopment Agency forced one of Julian Richardson's publishing companies and other African American businesses to relocate from Fillmore street.
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http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=3736#more
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