Welcome To The Neighbourhood

American marketing manager Odis von Blasingame with his wife, Georgetta Childress von Blasingame, and their son, Odis von Blasingame Jr, beside a broken window at their home on Ames Street in the River Terrace neighbourhood of Washington, DC, 4th August 1949. Von Blasingame and his family were subjected to threatening telephone calls, rocks thrown through the windows of their home, cutting of their telephone lines and fires set alight in their garden among other acts of vandalism after they became the first Black people to move into the River Terrace neighbourhood. (Photo by Henry Rohland/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)