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Carol Stack

This person spent three years living in the Flats in order to write this book.

Ruby Banks

This person is the author's most helpful and trusted friend within the community.

Magnolia Waters

This person is the mother of the author's most trusted friend in the community.

Calvin Waters

This person was a sharecropper in Mississippi.

Viola Jackson

This person is a mother of eleven and one of the author's first contacts in the Flats.

Leo Jackson

This person worked on a plantation before moving to the Flats.

William Ryan

This person is a sociologist who doesn't believe the racist theories that try to explain why blacks live in poverty.

Piven and Cloward

These people are sociologists whose theories influenced the author.

W.E.B. Dubois

This person was a writer in the early twentieth century.

Elliot Liebow

This person wrote Tally's Corner.

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