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| Excerpt from INNER CITY BLUES |
The
"golden ghetto," location of the Justice family home, the
Nut House. |
[We moved in] the late fifties from our house on Fortieth
Place on the Eastside to the newly integrated Negro Mecca
of View Park, on what colored folks called the Westside.
And into the house on the hill came the inhabitants of Justice's
Nut House. Although my parents named all four of us after
our family's ancestral homes—Daddy believed it was a way
of honoring the Negro's place in the world—until I was ten
and Perris was fourteen, there was just us and we were the
Nutty Buddies.
If you would like to read more of INNER CITY BLUES check
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