Baltimore '68
Subtitle: riots and rebirth in an American city
By: edited by Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, and Elizabeth M. Nix
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781439906613; 9781439906620; 9781439906637
Subjects: Social conditions; Race riots; Race relations; African Americans; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dream deferred : the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the holy week uprising of 1968 / Peter Levy; title: Jewell Chambers : oral history; title: Why was there no rioting in Cherry Hill? / John Breihan; title: "White man's lane" : hollowing out the highway ghetto in Baltimore / Emily Lieb; title: Spiro T. Agnew and the burning of Baltimore / Alex Csicsek; title: Tom Carney : oral history; title: "Church people work on the integration problem" : the Brethren's interracial work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 / Jessica I. Elfenbein; title: Convergences and divergences : the civil rights and anti-war movements, Baltimore / W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor; title: The Pats family : oral history; title: How the 1968 riots stopped school desegregation in Baltimore / Howell Baum; title: Pivot in perception : the impact of the 1968 uprising on three Baltimore business districts / Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner; title: "Where we live" : Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976 / Francesca Gamber; title: Planning for the people : the early years of Baltimore's neighborhood design center / Mary Potorti; title: Robert Birt : oral history; title: Epilogue. History, and memory : why it matters that we remember / Clement A. Price.