By Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote In 1962 in Forrest County, Mississippi, only 12 of the 7,500 adult black citizens were permitted to register to vote. That year, I made my first trip to the Deep South as one of the trial lawyers of Robert Kennedy’s … [Read more...] about “Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote” by Gordon A. Martin, Jr. (January-February 2012 P&R Issue)
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Racial Impacts of 2012 Housing Bill (PRRAC et al, January 2012)
“Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
By Lonnie G Bunch, III (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Beginnings When construction starts on the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Fall of 2012, it will signal a beginning for some. For those of us who have been involved with the Museum’s development, however, the groundbreaking will be more like rounding the … [Read more...] about “Building a National Museum” by Lonnie G Bunch, III (November-December 2011 P&R Issue)
Finding Common Ground: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Promote Integration (PRRAC & NCSD, October 2011).
A PRRAC-NCSD Report (October 2011). Edited by Philip Tegeler. Excerpt: Families who participated in the Baltimore Mobility Program experienced radical changes in their local neighborhood contexts, moving from poor and segregated areas to mixed race, low poverty communities. In this paper, we look at the changes in educational opportunity that accompanied these moves. Given … [Read more...] about Finding Common Ground: Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Promote Integration (PRRAC & NCSD, October 2011).
