Dr. Troy Kickler, in his review of Fitzhugh Brundage’s The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory (published in the April issue of The Journal of the North Carolina Association of Historians), makes the point that an unfettered market is not to blame for African American’s economic troubles after urban renewal in the 1960s South.  The real culprit is the conflation of local, state, and federal governments with selected private interests and the government’s power to displace.