Moonlight in Liberty

I came of age in the years after what historian C. Vann Woodward called the Second Reconstruction. I would enjoy its fruits, and there would not be the Nadir that followed the first Reconstruction, but there was a mitigated darkness. I slid in and out of the colored-negro-black world in which I was raised, travelling between the Ivy League and my homeplace, but it was being overtaken by something that was not us.

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References, Resources, and Copyright

• Woodward, C. (1957). The political legacy of reconstruction. The Journal of Negro Education, 26(3), 231-240.
• Highways gutted American cities. So why did they build them? - Vox
• Overtown is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States, just northwest of Downtown Miami. Originally called Colored Town during the Jim Crow era of the late 19th through the mid-20th century, the area was once the preeminent and is the historic center for commerce in the black community in Miami and South Florida.
• Woodward, C. (1955). The strange career of Jim Crow. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Attorney General Orders Tougher Sentences, Rolling Back Obama Policy - The New York Times (nytimes.com), Rebecca C. Ruiz, May 12, 2017; Memo by Sessions to U.S. Attorneys on Charges and Sentencing - The New York Times (nytimes.com).
• James Baldwin interviewed by Kenneth Clark. The interview took place in 1963 immediately following a meeting of Baldwin, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy. In addition, several prominent entertainers and cultural artists, and representatives of black political organizations and activist groups were present.
• Asch, C. M., & Musgrove, G. D. (2017). Chocolate City: A history of race and democracy in the nation's capital. Chapel Hill, NC: UNC Press Books; From Chocolate City to Latte City: Being black in the new D.C. - The Washington Post;
• ACLU Releases Crack Cocaine Report, Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 Deepened Racial Inequity in Sentencing | American Civil Liberties Union.; Cracks in the System: Twenty Years of the Unjust Federal Crack Cocaine Law
• How Political Districts With Prisons Give Their Lawmakers Outsize Influence | KOSU; Who Benefits When A Private Prison Comes To Town?, NPR; Rural Towns Turn to Prisons To Reignite Their Economies - The New York Times.

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