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Article: EAST THE PLACE FOR ORR.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2001
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Byline: Lonnie Wheeler
Mildred Orr thinks her youngest child's advantage was a matter of geographical good fortune. ''My other two sons attended school in the South,'' she said. ''Louis was lucky enough to go east.''
The origin of this academic compass-pointing was Madison- ville, a largely black community oddly situated on the far side of I-71, where it is five-cornered by Oakley and the wealthy white suburbs of Mariemont, Hyde Park, Indian Hill and Madeira.
Madisonville is by no means a tenement slum. It is characterized by single-family homes on summer-shade streets, and the residents there - many of whom have grown up a few doors from where ...