In this chapter, the author continues to explore black homeownership with Liberty City and Overtown, two historically black Miami communities, in view. She uses memoir and oral history to examine how people of African descent moved to and, in some cases, left these communities during the interwar and postwar periods. This discussion requires attention to how powerbrokers are reclaiming these neighborhoods for wealthier homeowners who contribute to climate gentrification on higher ground, or in once-predominantly black neighborhoods. This chapter also reels in the experiences of African American anthropologist and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston who famously worked as a maid in 1950 in South Florida but also campaigned in Liberty City for a white moderate while also trying to return to Honduras where she earlier did research. The reader is able to see how the woman who had interviewed many on the peninsula and in the Caribbean had experiences that mirrored in part those of the people she studied.