User:Maurystreet

The article on Richmond, Va., includes some minor and major omissions.

As a niggling problem, the name of one mayor is not Mayor Rudy McCollum. It is Rudolph C. McCollum Jr. Rudy is a nickname and could be inserted.

Secondly, there are other newspapers in this city. The major omission is of the Voice Newspaper, which has been published for more than 20 years by Jack Green. It also is from an African-American perspective.

The article fails gives to full attention to Jackson Ward. The first black-owned bank in America was founded there. The first armory built for black militia units was built there. So was the first black-owned insurance company. That is the reason it was known as the black Wall Street. At one point, before state banking regulations were imposed around 1910, there were 10 black-owned banks in Richmond.

The political upheaval of 1977 when the first majority-black council was elected gets short shrift as does the election at that point of city's first black mayor, Henry L. Marsh III, now a state senator.

Thank you -Jeremy Lazarus