Making Good Neighbors : : Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia / / Abigail Perkiss.
In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came...
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Perkiss, Abigail, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Making Good Neighbors : Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia / Abigail Perkiss. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014] ©2017 1 online resource (248 p.) : 7 halftones, 3 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Civil Rights’ Stepchild -- 1. “A Home of One’s Own”: The Battle over Residential Space in Twentieth- Century America -- 2. Finding Capital in Diversity: The Creation of Racially Integrated Space -- 3. Marketing Integration: Interracial Living in the White Imagination -- 4. Integration, Separation, and the Fight for Black Identity -- 5. “Well- Trained Citizens and Good Neighbors”: Educating an Integrated America -- 6. Confrontations in Black and White: The Crisis of Integration -- 7. The Choice to Live Differently: Reimagining Integration at Century’s End -- Epilogue: West Mount Airy and the Legacy of Integration -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century.The organizing principles of neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy, equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal, middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands apart from other experiments in integration because of the intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and 1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Civil rights History 20th century Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Civil rights Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century. Liberalism History 20th century Pennsylvania Philadelphia. Liberalism Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century. Discrimination & Race Relations. U.S. History. Urban Studies. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). bisacsh civil rights, liberalism, intentional integration, postwar urban history, postwar Philadelphia, West Mount Airy, racial separation, World War II, racial segregation, racial separation, racial power, housing discrimination, social activism, race relations, public policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110606744 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801470851 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801470851 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801470851/original |
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