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Author Silver, Christopher, 1951-

Title The separate city : Black communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968 / Christopher Silver and John V. Moeser
Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2015], ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Maps, and Figures; Preface; 1. The Rise of the Separate City; 2. Community Change and Community Leadership; 3. School Desegregation and the Rise of Black Political Independence; 4. Neighborhood Restructuring; 5. Race, Class, and the New Urban Politics; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Summary A ground-breaking collaborative study merging perspectives from history, political science, and urban planning, The Separate City is a trenchant analysis of the development of the African-American community in the urban South. While similar in some respects to the racially defined ghettos of the North, the districts in which southern blacks lived from the pre-World War II era to the mid-1960s differed markedly from those of their northern counterparts. The African- American community in the South was (and to some extent still is) a physically expansive, distinct, and socially heterogeneous zo
Analysis African Americans Politics and government Georgia Atlanta
African Americans Politics and government Tennessee Memphis
African Americans Politics and government Virginia Richmond
African Americans Population Georgia Atlanta
African Americans Population Tennessee Memphis
African Americans Population Virginia Richmond
Atlanta (Ga.) Race relations
Memphis (Tenn.) Race relations
Richmond (Va.) Race relations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Population
African Americans -- Virginia -- Richmond -- Politics and government
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Population
African Americans -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Politics and government
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Population
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Politics and government
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
HISTORY -- General.
African Americans -- Politics and government
African Americans -- Population
Race relations
SUBJECT Richmond (Va.) -- Race relations
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Race relations
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations
Subject Georgia -- Atlanta
Tennessee -- Memphis
Virginia -- Richmond
Form Electronic book
Author Moeser, John V., 1942-
ISBN 9780813161464
0813161460
1322601194
9781322601199
0813119111
9780813119113