Does This Make Sense?

does this make sense?

Between 1945 and 1973, the District of Columbia underwent changes at a level that it had not experienced since the Civil War transformed the political and social landscape of the city. After dismantling the Jim Crow segregation of schools and public accommodations the Deep South would continue to battle decades later, the city’s governing structure also changed dramatically, with citizens of all races gaining long-denied voting and representational rights. Although Washington had long been home to active movements for civil rights and legislative autonomy from Congress, these movements remained largely separate until the District became a majority-minority city in the 1950s. How did the confluence of these pre-existing rights movements, post-war demographic shifts and the prominence of a national civil rights movement contribute to the District of Columbia’s unprecedented gains in civil and representational rights by 1973?

After going back and looking at it, I think the second sentence is wonky and misplaced, and should be moved, deleted or re-written, but I don't feel like doing it right now. Thoughts?

The American white republic has to ask itself why it was necessary for them to invent the nigger. I am not a nigger. I have never called myself one. But one comes into the world and the world decides that you are this for its own reasons, and it is very important, I think, for the American in terms of the future, in terms of his health, in terms of the transformation we are all seeking, that he face this question, that he needed the nigger for something.

James Baldwin, 1963

An article by Jason I. Newman and Jacques B. DePuy, published in the Spring 1975 edition of the American University Law Reviewl (volume 24, number 3). It offers a legislative history of the District of Columbia, with references to specifically named laws and statutes; this is followed by a lengthy, in-depth, and rather dense analysis of the Home Rule Act of 1973.

An article published by DC Statehood Party founder Sam Smith. The graphic in and of itself is great for someone like me who has a tough time distilling down to a timeline.

Records from the Senate's Committee on the District of Columbia from 1816-1972. Of special note are records from the Radical Republican-controlled Senate of the Reconstruction era (the Senate fought for Kate Brown, one of their employees, to be able to ride on whites-only trains) and records on the nonstop flow of home rule bills considered after the LEgislative Reorganization Act of 1946.

Committee papers and bill files from the House of Representatives' Committee on the District of Columbia. Of special interest are those in the third set (1947-1968), which include documents pertaining to District home rule.