I Would Carry a Sign: The Politics of Black Adolescent Personality Development

Myron Ross Jr.’s first interview with Dennis Nelson happened as they sat “on the running board of a car parked just in front of the Anthony Bowen School Playground.” Myron had been “playing ball” in the playground located at the back of the school in the square block bordered by First, M, Delaware, and L Streets and surrounded by trees in Southwest.² Nelson described Myron as “dress[ed] neatly but not well.” Myron was “a tall, lithe, well-built, dark brown Negro boy,” the eldest of Laura Evelyn Ross and Myron Ross Sr.’s nine children. As seen earlier, Myron had lived in