Making good neighbors
Subtitle: civil rights, liberalism, and integration in postwar Philadelphia
By: Abigail Perkiss
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780801452284
Subjects: Civil rights; Race relations; Liberalism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : civil rights' stepchild; title: A home of one's own : the battle over residential space in twentieth century America; title: Finding capital in diversity : the creating of racially integrated space; title: Marketing integration: interracial living in the white imagination; title: Integration, separation, and the fight for black identity; title: Well-trained citizens and good neighbors : educating an integrated America; title: Confrontations in black and white : the crisis of integration; title: The choice to live differently : reimagining integration at century's end; title: Epilogue : intentional wakefulness : West Mount Airy and the legacy of integration.