Format:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 272 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781439906613
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9781439906620
Content:
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 civil unrest fou
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: April 1968; 1. The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968; 2. Jewell Chambers: Oral History; 3. Why Was There No Rioting in Cherry Hill?; Part II: The Political, Religious, and Urban Planning Context; 4. "White Man's Lane": Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore; 5. Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore; 6. Thomas Carney: Oral History; 7. "Church People Work on the Integration Problem": The Brethren's Interracial Work in Baltimore, 1949-1972
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8. Convergences and Divergences: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements-Baltimore, 1968Part III: Consequences for Education, Business, and Community Organizing; 9. The Pats Family: Oral History; 10. How the 1968 Riots Stopped School Desegregation in Baltimore; 11. Pivot in Perception: The Impact of the 1968 Riots on Three Baltimore Business Districts; 12. "Where We Live": Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976; 13. Planning for the People: The Early Years of Baltimore's Neighborhood Design Center; 14. Robert Birt: Oral History
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Epilogue: History and Memory: Why It Matters That We RememberContributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781439906637
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781439906613
Additional Edition:
Print version Baltimore '68 : Riots and Rebirth in an American City
Language:
English
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