Someone painted this image of a woman on a boarded-up dwelling to imbue the abandoned neighborhood with humanity, life and beauty, though a chain link fence has been put in place to keep people at bay.
This view down Main Street around the middle of the day should reveal the lively hustle and bustle of people, but instead an eery desolation emanates from the center of the neighborhood.
Bathed in bright sunshine, this corner building with a tree in front of it offers an image of lightness rather than the weight of a complex past that has defied more than forty years of efforts to rehabilitate Farish Street to its former glory.
Farish Street was named after Walter Farish, a former slave who took up residence on the Northeast corner of Davis and what would become Farish Street. The 'Do Not Enter' sign carries poignant connotations of meaning vis-à-vis this once gloriously
The shadow of a lamppost cuts an oddly abstract, ironically hovering figure between the boards that close off any access to this building.
The only sign of life on this empty street is the drawing of a person, an image of residual humanity that awaits revitalization.
During the first half of the twentieth century, like the Fourth Ward in Houston, Walnut Street in Louisville, and Greenwood in Tulsa, Farish Street established itself as a self-sustaining haven of Black prosperity. One local resident and business o
In the 1950s and 1960s, Stevens Kitchen welcomed prominent civil rights leaders and politicians, including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
During the 1930s and early 1940s, the Crystal Palace Ballroom was the most popular night club on Farish Street, hosting legendary performers like Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie and Fats Waller.
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