The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood

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A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative. It deserves to become a classic....This text needs to be understood and performed at least as regularly as Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Sandy Primm, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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An authentic and memorable American story of ordinary people caught in a moral crisis. -- Bernard Sahlins, founder and director, Second City * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *
Deserves to become a classic...this text needs to be understood. -- Sandy Primm * St. Louis Post-Dispatch *
A moving testimony of many voices. -- Richard Christiansen * Chicago Tribune *
A wonderful book...full of insight, verve and humanity. -- Philip Friedman
A sensitive, enlightening, and highly readable narrative of White Flight. -- Derrick Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well

Author Bio

Louis Rosen composes and writes for the theatre. His work includes Book of the Night and A Childs Garden. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.