For the People, west-sider Denise Ferguson is a lifelong resident who spoke with us about her memories of Douglas Park, and why keeping the area centered around the local community, is so important. | ✍️ _KellyGarcia__ | 📸 OliviaObineme👇
Denise Ferguson has lived most of her life in a two-flat across the street from Douglass Park. Through three generations of her family, she’s borne witness to the changes overcoming her front yard, an evolution that’s become increasingly personal. When three private music festivals threatened the sanctuary of her neighborhood, she was all but quiet.
Over the months that followed, I learned a lot about Denise and the memories she has of Douglass Park, a centerpiece of the west side where families would gather on Sundays to watch baseball. But she also remembers a Douglass Park in which Black people were not allowed to walk through. Before Riot Fest there were the 1968 riots. She can still picture the west side burning as Mayor Richard J. Daley ordered police to “shoot to kill.
The first time I saw Michael Jackson in the Jackson Five it was at the Central Park Theater . They were practicing that day in a garage up Roosevelt Road. There was nothing about North Lawndale that didn’t make it exciting and wonderful to grow up, except for what I thought was a very punitive position against Black people on the part of the city.
At six years old, I was hit by a car between Lexington and Central Park. I remember not being able to move. My mom rushed over with my neighbors. Someone called the ambulance, but the ambulance doesn’t come for Black people. Instead they sent a police wagon. The two police officers got out of the car and struck my mother. They put us both in the back of the wagon and told us they were taking us to the Garfield Park Hospital, across the Eisenhower Expressway.
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