O'Day Short

Biography

O'Day H. Short (February 7, 1905 – January 22, 1946) was an American refrigerator engineer who broke the color barrier in Fontana, California after buying land and constructing a house south of Base Line Road. Short contacted the FBI and the black press after receiving a warning of imminent violence from vigilantes. On December 16, 1945, the house exploded in a fireball.

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