Jerrold Ladd
Jerrold Ladd is a reporter for the Dallas Morning News.
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories
Poor And Poorer
Growing Up In The Projects
The endless rows of cramped units were designed to house the maximum number of people in the smallest, most underdeveloped side of town. Most families were black. There were only two categories — the poor but not yet without hope, and the poor without any hope.
August 1992
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