Hoods' Laundry
- Identifier
- DBB-BUS-01051
- Name
- Hoods' Laundry
- Type
- Business
- Activity
- laundry
- Description
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Samuel Hood had a laundry business at 4141 Hastings St. He expanded his business and moved into a large new location at 4824 St. Antoine St. in the mid-1930s. Soon after the move, his business was burned down in a mysterious fire. This incident took place in the winter of 1935–1936, and several months later, another prosperous Black laundry business (Supreme Linen and Laundry) was attacked. Many in the community believed that these incidents were connected and that white laundry operators were perpetrating this violence in an attempt to intimidate Black competitors who were trying to expand in the laundry business.
See Freedom Enterprise, p. 9, for a discussion of these events. - Affiliates
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Hood, Samuel
Role: Owner and/or Operator - Title
- Hoods' Laundry
- Resource class
- Organization