BUFFALO, N.Y. — Dr. Eva Doyle describes herself as one of the 'regular Saturday shoppers' at the Tops supermarket on Buffalo's predominantly Black east side.
Malik Rainey for ABC NewsBUFFALO, N.Y. — Dr. Eva Doyle describes herself as one of the"regular Saturday shoppers" at the Tops supermarket on Buffalo's predominantly Black east side.
Advocates for the east side say Buffalo's history of racial tensions and pronounced segregation provided the killer a roadmap to carry out the massacre, further wounding a community that has been reeling from decades of neglect and exposing underlying inequalities. While Buffalo is known widely as a major stop on the Underground Railroad for fugitive slaves in the early-to-mid-19th century, Doyle said her fears were justified when she learned decades ago that much of the city's other Black history had gone undocumented.
Fisher said his father moved to Buffalo in 1939 from Louisiana and got a job,"sweeping a broom" at the Westinghouse factory in nearby Cheektowaga. But in 1957, the famous urban planner, Robert Moses, designed Route 33, also known as the Kensington Expressway. The partially below grade freeway was completed by 1964, replacing much of Humboldt Parkway, uprooting most of its trees, displacing hundreds of households and cutting the east side in half. It greatly devalued homes in the area, Taylor said.
Then-New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller sent Black baseball legend Jackie Robinson, who was serving as the governor's special assistant for urban affairs, to Buffalo to try to quell tensions. And in November 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Buffalo's Kleinhans Music Hall, telling a crowd,"We are moving toward the day when we will judge a man by his character and ability instead of by the color of his skin.
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