| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 272 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
The dream deferred : the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the holy week uprising of 1968 / Peter Levy -- Jewell Chambers : oral history -- Why was there no rioting in Cherry Hill? / John Breihan -- "White man's lane" : hollowing out the highway ghetto in Baltimore / Emily Lieb -- Spiro T. Agnew and the burning of Baltimore / Alex Csicsek -- Tom Carney : oral history -- "Church people work on the integration problem" : the Brethren's interracial work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 / Jessica I. Elfenbein -- Convergences and divergences : the civil rights and anti-war movements, Baltimore / W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor -- The Pats family : oral history -- How the 1968 riots stopped school desegregation in Baltimore / Howell Baum -- Pivot in perception : the impact of the 1968 uprising on three Baltimore business districts / Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner -- "Where we live" : Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976 / Francesca Gamber -- Planning for the people : the early years of Baltimore's neighborhood design center / Mary Potorti -- Robert Birt : oral history -- Epilogue. History, and memory : why it matters that we remember / Clement A. Price |
| Summary |
In 1968, Baltimore was home to a variety of ethnic, religious, and racial communities that, like those in other American cities, were confronting a quickly declining industrial base. In April of that year, disturbances broke the urban landscape along lines of race and class. This book offers chapters on events leading up to the turmoil, the riots, and the aftermath as well as four rigorously edited and annotated oral histories of members of the Baltimore community. The combination of new scholarship and first-person accounts provides a comprehensive case study of this period of civil unrest four decades later. This engaging, broad-based public history lays bare the diverse experiences of 1968 and their effects, emphasizing the role of specific human actions. By reflecting on the stories and analysis presented in this anthology, readers may feel empowered to pursue informed, responsible civic action of their own. Baltimore '68 is the book component of a larger public history project, "Baltimore '68 Riots: Riots and Rebirth." The project's companion website (http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/index.html) offers many more oral histories plus photos, art, and links to archival sources. The book and the website together make up an invaluable teaching resource on cities, social unrest, and racial politics in the 1960s. The project was the corecipient of the 2009 Outstanding Public History Project Award from the National Council on Public History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Race riots -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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HISTORY -- General.
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Race riots
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Social conditions
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Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 20th century
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Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Maryland -- Baltimore
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Elfenbein, Jessica I
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Hollowak, Thomas L
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Nix, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Morrow), 1964-
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| LC no. |
2010050108 |
| ISBN |
9781439906637 |
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1439906637 |
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9786613159564 |
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6613159565 |
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