Making Good Neighbors : : Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia /

Making Good Neighbors : : Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia / / Abigail Perkiss.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Perkiss, Abigail,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2017
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 7 halftones, 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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