Sections
- Kansas, land of pain, land of liberation
- A hundred reasons the war shouldn't have happened
- Mixed results
- The Lost Cause
- Lewis and Clark, Missionization, Indian Wars
- Socialists in Kansas
- Black freedom after the Civil War
- The Lytle Family
- Black newspapers
- The Great Migration continued
- Harlem Renaissance
- Redlining
- Black family wealth and its barriers between WWI and WWII
- Blockbusting in Baltimore and elsewhere
- Urban Renewal in Topeka
- Urban Renewal pushed people out.
- What is a slum?
- The Baby Boom slowed down. Now what?
- Downtown is our best prospect for economic growth
- Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it
- One city’s path to rebuilding downtown
- The Growth Ponzi Scheme
- The reality of the suburbs today
- Kansas City example from Strong Towns:
- Local thoughts on Kansas City & personal story
- Climate Change and suburban sprawl
- Flipping the switch off for family farming
- Car ownership in the U.S.
- Senior mobility and transit
- City of Topeka plan and Shawnee County plan
- HOPE
Since the end of the Civil War, black Americans have been promised opportunity, only to have that opportunity swiftly revoked. There have been three major waves of this back-and-forth giving and taking of freedom since the mid-1800s, and they all have long-lasting effects which have affected black wealth and opportunity throughout history and up to the present moment.
When digging into the indigenous and black history of our country, it's easy to find plenty of white voices recording their takes on matters. Yet again, here is another white man's take on the history. I have been fortunate to find some Indigenous and African-American sources to help tell these stories, but again, I'm a white writer telling them. Dear reader, please know that there is more to these stories that I have surely missed.