Reid talks about the last days at Beecher Terrace, Metro Housing Authority, housing inequality, buying books, being an autodidact, effects of prosecution as one of the Black Six, subsequent disenfranchisement from community and family, efforts to clear himself of charges, reflections on American history, society, and jurisprudence, civil rights movement.
These and other interviews were conducted by the Louisville Story Program and collaboratively edited with the participants authors between 2020 and 2023. The culmination of this collaborative work is the documentary book, “If You Write Me A Letter, Send It Here: Voices of Russell in a Time of Change.” This anthology of nonfiction documents the rich layers of history and cultural heritage in the Russell area of west Louisville, a neighborhood whose history is centrally important to the Black experience in Louisville.
