The Nashville Way : Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City /

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Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. The author offers this scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Houston, Benjamin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States Local History.
History & Archaeology.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
Race relations.
African Americans.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Civil Rights.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Cultural Heritage.
Noirs americains > Tennessee > Nashville.
African Americans > Tennessee > Nashville.
Tennessee > Nashville.
Nashville (Tenn.) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : The Nashville Way
  • A Manner of Segregation : Lived Race Relations and Racial Etiquette
  • The Triumph of Tokenism : Public School Desegregation
  • The Shame and the Glory : The 1960 Sit-ins
  • The Kingdom or Individual Desires? : Movement and Resistance during the 1960s
  • Black Power/White Power : Militancy in Late 1960s Nashville
  • Cruel Mockeries : Renewing a City
  • Epilogue : Achieving Justice.

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