TY - BOOK AU - Baum,Howell S. TI - Brown in Baltimore: School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism SN - 9780801458347 AV - LC214 U1 - 379.2/63097526 PY - 2010/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - School integration -- Maryland -- Baltimore KW - Segregation in education -- Maryland -- Baltimore KW - Race relations in school management -- Maryland -- Baltimore KW - School choice -- Maryland -- Baltimore KW - Liberalism -- Maryland -- Baltimore KW - Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138047 ER -