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Episode 4: The Massacre

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A Photograph of Your Grandfather Sitting in a Tent

There's a photograph of your grandfather that i really love. Om it's of him sitting in a tent. Yes, immediately following the massacre, with his law partner and their a secretary, they're processing insurance claims from home owners and businesses which had been destroyed. At the same time, the city council has passed an ordinance saying that african americans could only rebuild with non flammable materials. And then he successfully fights that to the state supreme court. He worked out of that tent every day, trying to get insurance companies to pay out claims to the people of greenwood.

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