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By the 1960s, even the memory of flourishing towns like Hurston's Eatonville had been erased, replaced by crime-ridden ghettoes that '60s radicals tried to palm off as the only legitimate black experience.
And now an imaginative but severely crime-ridden neighborhood in Minneapolis is threatening to ask President Clinton to declare their district a federal disaster area on the grounds that state and local authorities can't or won't cope with their long-running problems.
Young adults, like Mary T., a jobless mother of three, trying desperately to keep her kids out of trouble in a crime-ridden neighborhood.