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Listen: The Blues ProgramView showing fire damage to Crow's Grocery store at 1902 Lake Bradford Road in Tallahassee, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
N2009-4, Box 2
Subject Term
Community enterprise--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Grocery store--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Civil rights movements
Violent deaths
Offenses against property
Arson
Riots--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Food industry and trade--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee--Fires and fire prevention
Fires--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee
Grocery trade--Florida--Leon County--Tallahassee--Fires and fire prevention
Personal Subjects
Corporate Subject
Physical Description
General Note
The Tallahassee Fire Department provides emergency services from fires and fire hazards, as well as first response to biological, chemical and radioactive hazards. Its mission is to prevent or minimize the loss of life and property, protect the environment, assist in cooperative emergency medical services, mitigate the consequences of natural and unforeseen disasters, and provide non-emergency support services, through professional and effective delivery, to all who live, visit, work or invest in the City of Tallahassee and Leon County.
19 year old Travis Crow suffocated after a Molotov cocktail firebomb was hurled through the window of the grocery store his family owned during riots following the sniper slaying of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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