The above chart represents the central relationships of “Richard Pryor’s Peoria”.
The members of Pryor’s family, along with those who later hired him, form a dense network around North Washington Street.
On the lower half of the chart, Pryor’s teachers cluster around the nearly all-white schools he attended. Meanwhile his stage mentor Juliette Whittaker and his friend Matthew Clark are associated with the black community hub of the Carver Center, which served as a middle ground between North Washington Street and the formal schools he attended.