Brown in Baltimore School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism

Name: Brown in Baltimore School Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism
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ISBN: 9780801476525

ISBN-10: 0801476526

ISBN-13: 9780801476525

Edition: 2010

Authors: Howell S. Baum

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In the first book to present the history of Baltimore school desegregation, Howell S. Baum shows how good intentions got stuck on what Gunnar Myrdal called the "American Dilemma." Immediately after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, the city's liberal school board voted to desegregate and adopted a free choice policy that made integration voluntary. Baltimore's school desegregation proceeded peacefully, without the resistance or violence that occurred elsewhere. However, few whites chose to attend school with blacks, and after a few years of modest desegregation, schools resegregated and became increasingly segregated. The school board never changed its policy. Black leaders had…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.14" wide x 12.56" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction: Liberalism, Race, and the American Dilemma



An American Border City



A Long Black Campaign for Equality



Opening the Racial Door Slightly



Desegregation by Free Choice



Modest Change



Parents' Protest against Continuing Segregation



Growing Integrationism and the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.



Federal Intervention



Federal Officials, the School Board, and Parents Negotiate



The City's Court Victory


Conclusion: Baltimore School Desegregation, Liberalism, and Race


Appendix


Notes


Index