"Brown" in Baltimore : : School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism / / Howell S. Baum.
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...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2011] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 3 tables, 2 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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