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Baltimore '68 : riots and rebirth in an American city / edited by Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, and Elizabeth M. Nix.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race riots--Maryland--Baltimore--History--20th century.
- Race riots.
- African Americans--Maryland--Baltimore--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Baltimore (Md.)--History--20th century.
- Baltimore (Md.).
- Baltimore (Md.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Baltimore (Md.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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 c
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613159564
- 9781283159562
- 1283159562
- 9781439906637
- 1439906637
- OCLC:
- 741520669
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