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Category : Civil rights
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Fourth Annual Education Conference on Problems of Segregation and Desegregation of Public Schools
Author: Annual Education Conference on Problems of Segregation and Desegregation of Public Schools
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Conference Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Author: Fourth annual education conference on problems of segregation and desegregation of public schools
Author: "Brown" in Baltimore
Author: Howell S. BaumPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 080145834X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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 city's liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore's school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had urged the board to adopt free choice and, despite the limited desegregation, continued to support the policy and never sued the board to do anything else. Baum finds that American liberalism is the key to explaining how this happened. Myrdal observed that many whites believed in equality in the abstract but considered blacks inferior and treated them unequally. School officials were classical liberals who saw the world in terms of individuals, not races. They adopted a desegregation policy that explicitly ignored students' race and asserted that all students were equal in freedom to choose schools, while their policy let whites who disliked blacks avoid integration. School officials' liberal thinking hindered them from understanding or talking about the city's history of racial segregation, continuing barriers to desegregation, and realistic change strategies. From the classroom to city hall, Baum examines how Baltimore's distinct identity as a border city between North and South shaped local conversations about the national conflict over race and equality. The city's history of wrestling with the legacy of Brown reveals Americans' preferred way of dealing with racial issues: not talking about race. This avoidance, Baum concludes, allows segregation to continue.
White Flight
Author: Kevin M. KrusePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400848970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate." In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance. In the end, Kruse finds that segregationist resistance, which failed to stop the civil rights movement, nevertheless managed to preserve the world of segregation and even perfect it in subtler and stronger forms. Challenging the conventional wisdom that white flight meant nothing more than a literal movement of whites to the suburbs, this book argues that it represented a more important transformation in the political ideology of those involved. In a provocative revision of postwar American history, Kruse demonstrates that traditional elements of modern conservatism, such as hostility to the federal government and faith in free enterprise, underwent important transformations during the postwar struggle over segregation. Likewise, white resistance gave birth to several new conservative causes, like the tax revolt, tuition vouchers, and privatization of public services. Tracing the journey of southern conservatives from white supremacy to white suburbia, Kruse locates the origins of modern American politics. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.
Conference Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Author: Civil Rights U.S.A.
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress SenatePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2562
Book Description
Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations, 1964
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on AppropriationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
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