A Georgia family’s fight to protect generational land from eminent domain reflects a broader American pattern: development pressures colliding with Black landownership and the fragile foundations of generational wealth.
Mound Bayou: The Architecture of Self-Reliance in the Mississippi Delta
In 1887, inside one of the most restrictive political environments in American history, Mound Bayou built land ownership, banking, healthcare, governance, and civic cohesion into a functioning institutional ecosystem. This flagship case study examines how institutional layering created resilience—and how scale compression later tested it.