A Pragmatic Heresy

Published February 9, 2006 4:00am ET



ROBERT WOODSON is the founder and head of the National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise (NCNE). A former civil rights activist and community organizer, he is one of the many 1960s-era liberals who was mugged by reality. In Woodson’s case, it was the reality that the civil rights movement had become a middle-class cause with little relevance to impoverished neighborhoods.

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