An article about part of Columbia's Central area. If you go to the links there are maps and graphs of the makeup of Columbia showing race, income, educational levels for different parts of the city.
Carolyn
THE MISSOURIAN'S Home Run
A persistent legacy of racial separation haunts this city and A Street Divided -- Columbia Missourian reporter Megan Rolland's and photographer Adam Wisneski's searing portrait of life up and down Garth Avenue -- is great journalism about it.
I usually reserve my long-article reading for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, or New York Review of Books. But not this time. I was captivated by the confluence of history and tragedy that has shaped our town in the shadows of segregation. The story answered a lot of troubling questions and left me wondering how Columbia can ever really be the great city it aspires to be with parks, streets, public housing, and neighborhoods that are -- for all intents and purposes -- still segregated.
Lest we forget, however, Hank Waters wistfully reminds that, "Before school desegregation, Douglass High was a very good teaching institution, also providing social and disciplinary glue for the community. Its staff was full of high-quality teachers and coaches who also were counselors, looking after kids on the streets as well as in the building. The school and the community were one."
THE TRIBUNE'S VIEW
Did he just say, "Before school desegregation...the school and the community were one??"
A Street Divided
Columbia Missourian - A Street Divided
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