As the whites had moved north on June 1, they put the torch to more than 1,115 Negro homes (314 more were looted, but not burned), five hotels, thirty-one restaurants, four drugstores, eight doctors’ offices, the new Dunbar School, two dozen grocery stores, the Negro hospital, the public library, and even a dozen churches, including the community’s most magnificent new edifice, Mount Zion Baptist Church.
