Format:
Online-Ressource (214 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9780874620214
Content:
With unrest around the country and riots in Newark and Detroit, it became known as the long, hot summer of 1967. Milwaukee experienced a riot, too, and then became the biggest civil rights story in the nation as a white Catholic priest, along with a bunch of kids from the inner city, conducted marathon marches and demonstrations for an open housing law. It was a defining period, though not the end, of years of civil rights protests in Beertown, USA, against de facto school segregation, discrimination by a private club whose roster included members of the white power structure, and public offic
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short title; title page; copyright page; dedication; table of contents; foreword; introduction; chapter 1 Detroit Came First; chapter 2 Milwaukee Joins the List; chapter 3 No Simple Answers; chapter 4 Gemütlichkeit & Stereotypes; chapter 5 Core Comes out of the Core; chapter 6 Music for Milwaukee; chapter 7 The "White Nigger"; chapter 8 Eagles and Open Housing; chapter 9 City with a Chance; afterword; photo section;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780874623642
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780874620214
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe City with a Chance : A Case History of Civil Rights Revolution
Language:
English
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