We are the children of those who chose to survive.

                                                                                Nana Poussaint in Daughters of the Dust

 

 

 

Entrepreneurs
 

Riversider's were more than capable of creating their own opportunities as well as a successful infrastructure. 

 

Adams Kart Track,  West Riverside

Adams Family

Allen Furniture Store,  8th St.

John Allen

 

Bartee's Beauty Shop, 11th St.

Willie F. Bartee

 

Bowens Restaurant,  13th & Park Ave

Ivarine Bowens.

 

Boyd Barber Shop,  10th & Park Ave. 

Robert Boyd

 

Boyd Real Estate,  10th & Park Ave.

Emma Boyd

 

Coleman & Davis Beauty Shop14th St.

Leona Coleman & Mylie Davis

 

Danny's Place,  14th & Grove 

Danny Culpepper

 

De la Houssaye Medical8th & Park

Dr. De la Houssaye

 

Decatur Grocery Store,  14th & Park Ave. 

Decatur Family

 

Gordon Beauty Shop,  Park Ave.

Frances Gordon-Green

 

Harris Sanitation,  West Riverside

Oscar Harris

 

Jackson Beauty Shop,  11th St.

Laura Jackson

 

Jones Auto Garage,  Park Ave.

Buster Jones

 

Master Glaze Auto Wash,  14th & Main

John Allen

 

Montgomery Café,  Park Ave

Rev. Montgomery

 

Norris Television Shop,  Park Ave.

John Norris

 

Palmer's Chicken Shack,  Park Ave.
Palmer Family

 

Palmer's Dry Cleaners,  Park Ave. 

Palmer Family

 

Peg's Party Shop,  14th St.

Peggy Streeter

 

Pitts Restaurant & Pool Hall,  Park Ave. 

Pitts Family

 

Ponder's Barber Shop,  8th St.  

James Ponder

 

Reynolds Brothers Gas Station,  14th & Park Ave.

Al & Harold Reynolds

 

Reynolds Shoe Shine Stand,  10th St. Downtown

Sanders Reynolds

 

Riverside Carriage Exchange,  10th St.

Frank Johnson

 

Stowers & Webb Auto Garage10th St.

James Stowers & Walter Webb

 

Streeter Real Estate,  14th & Park Ave.

Eddie Streeter

 

Sweet Shop Lincoln Park

John Allen

 

The Place,  Vine St.

L.B. Walker

 

Tillie's Mortuary,  10th & Park Ave.

Frank Tillie

 

Wiley & Stokes Grocery Store,  12th & Park Ave. 

Wiley & Stokes Family

 

Winston Grocery Store,   Sedgewick & 12th St.

Joe Winston

 

Yates Restaurant,  Park Ave. 

Ida Yates

 

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed."

-Booker T. Washington

 

 

 

 

I stand here today at the crosscurrents of that history  knowing that my piece of the American dream is a blessing hard won by those who came before me.

-Michelle Obama

 

 

 

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

-Ralph Bunche  Journal of Negro Education


 

 

 

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