Reviews for Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital

The average rating for Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-03-23 00:00:00 Peter Gratten An excellent survey of the mostly forgotten history of Washington, DC (particularly the city's 2nd race riots, in 1919, which we were not taught about at Dunbar!). The only fault is that Morty Kaplan was actually Marvin Caplan, of Shepherd Park, founder of Neighbor's Inc. Otherwise, Green does a superb job of describing a history which needs updating (which was partly why I wrote "Stayed on Freedom's Call," which of course cites Green and many others in the history of Black-Jewish cooperation in DC. In service to Community, Shira Destinie Jones Landrac, William-James-MEOW Date: Saturday, July 14. 12014 H.E. (Holocene Era)

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-09 00:00:00 Dexter Malone A bracingly honest look at the city’s underprivileged and powerless. “The District of Columbia was neither the ‘colored man’s paradise,’ as unobservant whites had once labeled it, nor was it in its entirety the ‘Magnificent Capital’ portrayed not long ago in a best-selling picture book. The black ghettos were as much part of Washington as were the stretches of greensward and the gleaming white marble facades of public buildings.”