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Making good neighbors : civil rights, liberalism, and integration in postwar Philadelphia Abigail Perkiss
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Room UPA/Ph F 158.68 .M68 P47 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perkiss, Abigail, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Civil rights--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Civil rights.
- Liberalism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Liberalism.
- Discrimination in housing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--20th century.
- Discrimination in housing.
- Mount Airy (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 231 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Introduction : civil rights' stepchild
- A home of one's own : the battle over residential space in twentieth century America
- Finding capital in diversity : the creating of racially integrated space
- Marketing integration: interracial living in the white imagination
- Integration, separation, and the fight for black identity
- Well-trained citizens and good neighbors : educating an integrated America
- Confrontations in black and white : the crisis of integration
- The choice to live differently : reimagining integration at century's end
- Epilogue : intentional wakefulness : West Mount Airy and the legacy of integration.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801452284
- 0801452287
- OCLC:
- 855858302
- Publisher Number:
- 40023526042
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