Research Catalog

Title

The conspiracy of the good : civil rights and the struggle for community in two American cities, 1875-2000 / Michael E. James.

Author

James, Michael E.

Publication

New York : P. Lang, c2005.

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Details

Description

xix, 383 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

History of schools and schooling ; v. 30

Uniform Title

History of schools and schooling ; v. 30.

Subject

• African Americans > History. > Charlottesville
• Minorities > History. > Pasadena
• School integration > Charlottesville > History
• School integration > Pasadena > History
• Charlottesville (Va.) > Race relations
• Pasadena (Calif.) > Race relations
• Charlottesville (Va.) > Social conditions
• Pasadena (Calif.) > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-367) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Bridges and drive-bys -- 1. The city on the hill -- 2. Fear itself: white over black and the creation of public education in the new south -- 3. "In this aristocratic town?": labor, women and the gospel of discontent -- 4. Coming of age in the new south: urbanity and schooling in the old dominion, 1900-1940 -- 5. "Winning them into goodness": progressive Pasadena between the wars, 1920-1940 -- 6. Southern progressivism during the great depression: creating the "new south" in Virginia's schools 1900-1940 -- 7. "Progressive education in REDucation!": civil rights in Pasadena, 1930-1975 -- 8. Massive resistance: "freedom of choice" -- Looking back: perceptions of renaissance.

ISBN

0820457795 (pb : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002075710^^

OCLC

50089742

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library