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White Flight Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
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Title
White Flight [electronic resource] : Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism / Kevin M. Kruse.
ISBN
1400848970
9781400848973
0691092605 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691092607
Published
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 325 p. :) ill., maps ;
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index.
Contents
"The city too busy to hate": Atlanta and the politics of progress.
From radicalism to "respectability": race, residence, and segregationist strategy.
From community to individuality: race, residence, and segregationist ideology.
The abandonment of public space: desegregation, privatization, and the tax revolt.
The "second battle of Atlanta": massive resistance and the divided middle class.
The fight for "freedom of association": school desegregation and White withdrawal.
Collapse of the coalition: sit-ins and the business rebellion.
"The law of the land": federal intervention and the Civil Rights Act.
City limits: urban separatism and suburban secession.
Epilogue: The legacies of White flight.
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