White flight Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism / Kevin M. Kruse.

SeriesPolitics and society in twentieth-century America
Contents "The city too busy to hate": Atlanta and the politics of progress. -- From radicalism to "respectability": race, residence, and segregationist strategy. -- From community to individuality: race, residence, and segregationist ideology. -- The abandonment of public space: desegregation, privatization, and the tax revolt. -- The "second battle of Atlanta": massive resistance and the divided middle class. -- The fight for "freedom of association": school desegregation and White withdrawal. -- Collapse of the coalition: sit-ins and the business rebellion. -- "The law of the land": federal intervention and the Civil Rights Act. -- City limits: urban separatism and suburban secession. -- Epilogue: The legacies of White flight.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-311) and index.
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LCCN 2004062468
ISBN0691092605 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691092607

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