This 1964 image illustrates the way I-90 divided neighborhoods. All of the structures in this image below the spires of First Presbyterian church were demolished for freeway construction (image L87-1.2280-64 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture).

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This 1964 image illustrates the way I-90 divided neighborhoods. All of the structures in this image below the spires of First Presbyterian church were demolished for freeway construction (image L87-1.2280-64 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture).

This file appears in: Tommy Fletcher, Resident Since 1950

Tommy Fletcher, Resident Since 1950

By Spokane Regional Health District's Neighborhoods Matter Program, & Frank Oesterheld

"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 first-hand the deep racial…