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Making good neighbors : civil rights, liberalism, and integration in postwar Philadelphia
Title
Making good neighbors : civil rights, liberalism, and integration in postwar Philadelphia / Abigail Perkiss.
ISBN
9780801452284 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801452287 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publication
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
xii, 231 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 13, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : civil rights' stepchild
A home of one's own : the battle over residential space in twentieth century America
Finding capital in diversity : the creating of racially integrated space
Marketing diversity : integration and the white imagination
Integration, separation, and the fight for black identity
Well-trained citizens and good neighbors : educating an integrated America
Confrontations in black and white : the crisis of integration
The choice to live differently : reimagining integration at century's end
Epilogue : intentional wakefulness : West Mount Airy and the legacy of integration.
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