Memphis since Crump
Subtitle: bossism, Blacks, and civic reformers, 1948-1968
By: by David M. Tucker.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press; Brand: Univ of Tennessee Pr; Univ of Tennessee Pr
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Politics and government.; Urban renewal -- Tennessee -- Memphis.; Memphis (Tenn.) -- Politics and government.
Description: Patronage, persuasion, and fear during E. H. Crump's years as mayor led a group of Memphians to launch a dynamic experiment in civic reform. David Tucker vividly describes its career, from the early days of national and international ideals to local disintegration as a result of racial tensions culminating in the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. By probing the experience of the nation's seventeenth largest city, Tucker increases our understanding of municipal reform in twentieth-century America. -- Jacket
Notes: Bibliography: p. 173-178.
Includes index.