"We Suffered . . ."

On nice evenings, Donald Howard, 25, his wife and two small children knew what to expect: the neighbors came around to throw taunts and rocks, to riot and run rampage. The Howards are Negroes, the first to move into the Trumbull Park public housing project on Chicago's South Side. Ten other Negro families moved in later, but the Howards bore the brunt of racial hate.

Mobs tried to rush their apartment, smashed their windows 15 times, caused $200,000 damages in the area, despite massive full-time police protection (TIME, March 1). Last week, after living behind barricaded windows for nine months, Howard moved out, at police urging, to a predominantly Negro neighborhood. "We were too nervous to eat or sleep," he said. "We suffered . . ."

Police hoped for an end to the Trumbull Park riots, the most sustained in Chicago's history. Howard hoped that his retreat would make life easier for the other Negro families, but in the tense South Side, hate is not easily appeased. Recently, a teenage gang stoned two Trumbull Park Negro women, both pregnant, as they walked home from a grocery store. Chicago expected trouble in the sultry summer nights ahead.

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