Race, riots, and roller coasters : the struggle over segregated recreation in America /

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"Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolcott, Victoria W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Colección:Politics and culture in modern America.
Temas:
1900-1999
African Americans > Recreation > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Segregation > United States > History > 20th century.
Recreation > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Loisirs > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Ségrégation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Loisirs > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Droits > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Recreation.
African Americans > Segregation.
Race relations.
Recreation > Social aspects.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
United States.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A tarnished Golden Age: race and recreation before World War II
  • The fifth freedom: racial liberalism, nonviolence, and recreation riots in the 1940s
  • "A northern city with a southern exposure": challenging recreational segregation in the 1950s
  • Violence in the city of good neighbors: delinquency and consumer rights in the postwar city
  • Building a national movement: students confront recreational segregation
  • "Riotland": race and the decline of urban amusements.

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