Sketch of the Hecht Company store from a Hecht's pocket directory

ID: 4607 ~ Source: Private Collection of John DeFerrari
This file appears in: Civil Rights Site: Civic Activism - Hecht's Department Store
Sketch of the Hecht Company store from a Hecht's pocket directory
This file appears in: Civil Rights Site: Civic Activism - Hecht's Department Store

Hecht’s was one of the largest department stores in the city for much of the 20th century. In the 1950s, it became a key site of protest in the battle to end discrimination against Black shoppers.Although a 1929 survey by the Black-owned Washington…