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Brown in Baltimore : School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801458347
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brown in BaltimoreDDC classification:
  • 379.2/63097526
LOC classification:
  • LC214
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liberalism, Race, and the American Dilemma -- 1. An American Border City -- 2. A Long Black Campaign for Equality -- 3. Opening the Racial Door Slightly -- 4. Desegregation by Free Choice -- 5. Modest Change -- 6. Parents' Protest against Continuing Segregation -- 7. Growing Integrationism and the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 8. Federal Intervention -- 9. Federal Officials, the School Board, and Parents Negotiate -- 10. The City's Court Victory -- Conclusion: Baltimore School Desegregation, Liberalism, and Race -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liberalism, Race, and the American Dilemma -- 1. An American Border City -- 2. A Long Black Campaign for Equality -- 3. Opening the Racial Door Slightly -- 4. Desegregation by Free Choice -- 5. Modest Change -- 6. Parents' Protest against Continuing Segregation -- 7. Growing Integrationism and the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 8. Federal Intervention -- 9. Federal Officials, the School Board, and Parents Negotiate -- 10. The City's Court Victory -- Conclusion: Baltimore School Desegregation, Liberalism, and Race -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index.

In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the.

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