Baltimore '68 Riots and Rebirth in an American City

Name: Baltimore '68 Riots and Rebirth in an American City
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ISBN: 9781439906620

ISBN-10: 1439906629

ISBN-13: 9781439906620

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jessica Elfenbein, Thomas Hollowak, Elizabeth Nix

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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 four decades later.This engaging, broad-based public history lays bare the diverse experiences of 1968…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 6/17/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments



April 1968



The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Holy Week Uprisings of 1968




Jewell Chambers: Oral History edited




Why Was There No Rioting in Cherry Hill?




The Political, Religious, and Urban Planning Context



"White Man's Lane": Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore




Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore




Thomas Carney: Oral History edited




"Church People Work on the Integration Problem": The Brethren's Interracial Work in Baltimore, 1949-1972




Convergences and Divergences: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements-Baltimore, 1968




Consequences For Education, Business, and Community Organizing



The Pats Family: Oral History edited




How the 1968 Riots Stopped School Desegregation in Baltimore




Pivot in Perception: The Impact of the 1968 Riots on Three Baltimore Business Districts




"Where We Live": Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976




Planning for the People: The Early Years of Baltimore's Neighborhood Design Center




Robert Birt: Oral History edited



Epilogue: History and Memory: Why It Matters That We Remember



Contributors


Index