Workers install a sewer trunk line between 4th and 5th Avenues as part of a Works Progress Administration project, 1938 (image L86-341.8 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)

"It was quite difficult, I have to tell you like it is . . . . We couldn't buy a house in South Hill because of color." Like Theo Adams, Tommy Fletcher moved to East Central in 1950 and experienced…