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“That’s just what it was, too,” Smitty said. “A plantation. Black people in the worst jobs. The worst housing. Police brutality ...
“The old Wisconsin Steel plant.” We sat there in silence, studying the building. It expressed some of the robust, brutal spirit ...
shopped at Sears or Kmart, drove late-model cars from Detroit and ate at Red Lobster on special occasions. A barrel- chested bla ...
When the rally was over, Marty mentioned that he had to give some people a ride home, so instead of riding with him I decided to ...
can do when we put our minds to it. That good feeling you got right now, we got to keep it going till we got this neighborhood b ...
In these stories, wherever black and white met, the result was sure to be anger and grief. The area had never fully recovered fr ...
I tossed my third-week report onto Marty’s desk and took a seat as he read it through. “Not bad,” he said when he was finished. ...
“Brother Smalls, you just missed an excellent presentation,” Reverend Reynolds said. “This young man, Brother Obama, has a plan ...
wayward traffic upstairs, while Ruby sat glumly onstage, listening to the policeman lecture about the need for parental discipli ...
area referred to Altgeld as “the Gardens” for short, although it wasn’t until later that I considered the irony of the name, its ...
problem was our base, which-in the city, at least-had never been large: eight Catholic parishes flung across several neighborhoo ...
I had tried my best to mediate the conflict, defending Marty against charges of racism, suggesting to him that he cultivate more ...
best patronage jobs that the Machine had to offer in the days before patronage became a dirty word. In his eagerness to do battl ...
“Barack...” “No, I’m just asking you a question. You say you’re tired, the same way most folks out here are tired. So I’m just t ...
reading of Scripture, their choice of lawn fertilizer, or the constitutionality of the income tax (he felt that tax violated the ...
And I knew that the father was absent, although Mary never mentioned him. Only in bits and pieces, over the course of many month ...
Will let the silence build for several minutes. “Anybody want to share their thoughts?” he repeated. People looked down at the t ...
“You know what you were asking before. About why I do this. It had something to do with the meeting tonight. I mean...I don’t th ...
“That’s the short term. This”-Rafiq pointed to a map of Roseland that hung on the wall, with certain areas marked off in red ink ...
“Every merchant around here turns down thirty applications a day,” he said. “Adults. Senior citizens. Experienced workers willin ...
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