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Brown in Baltimore : school desegregation and the limits of liberalism /

In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baum, Howell S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • An American border city
  • A long black campaign for equality
  • Opening the racial door slightly
  • Desegregation by free choice
  • Modest change
  • Parents' protest against continuing segregation
  • Growing integrationism and the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Federal intervention
  • Federal officials, the school board, and parents negotiate
  • The city's court victory.