Michael Doody remembers some things about his Columbus, Ohio neighborhood in the 1990s:
"Gunshots, helicopters, thefts, smashed out windows, burglaries, robberies, assaults and murders."
In addition to the crime, roughly 50 percent of the children were living in poverty in this area, known as Southern Orchards.
During the mid-20th century, construction of an interstate through the middle of the community separated many of the neighborhood's majority black residents from job opportunities in downtown Columbus.
