Topic: Community Cohesion

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51: Civil Wrongs
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51: Civil Wrongs

Bob Woodson on the Strength of the Black Community

Bob Woodson, founder of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, describes the high level of community cohesion and moral standards in Black neighborhoods prior to 1959. He notes that 78% of Black families had both a man and a woman in the home and that discipline was a community-wide responsibility. Woodson argues that the sense of oneness between the school and the community was more important than the income level of the residents.