Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
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ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Hearing [s] Held in Boston, Massachusetts, October 4-5, 1966
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Hearing Before the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Hearing Held in Boston, Massachusetts, October 4-5, 1966
Author: United States Commission on Civil Rights
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Saving America's Cities
Author: Lizabeth Cohen
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374721602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374721602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In twenty-first-century America, some cities are flourishing and others are struggling, but they all must contend with deteriorating infrastructure, economic inequality, and unaffordable housing. Cities have limited tools to address these problems, and many must rely on the private market to support the public good. It wasn’t always this way. For almost three decades after World War II, even as national policies promoted suburban sprawl, the federal government underwrote renewal efforts for cities that had suffered during the Great Depression and the war and were now bleeding residents into the suburbs. In Saving America’s Cities, the prizewinning historian Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests that would culminate in the neoliberal rush to privatize efforts to solve entrenched social problems. A Yale-trained lawyer, rival of Robert Moses, and sometime critic of Jane Jacobs, Logue saw renewing cities as an extension of the liberal New Deal. He worked to revive a declining New Haven, became the architect of the “New Boston” of the 1960s, and, later, led New York State’s Urban Development Corporation, which built entire new towns, including Roosevelt Island in New York City. Logue’s era of urban renewal has a complicated legacy: Neighborhoods were demolished and residents dislocated, but there were also genuine successes and progressive goals. Saving America’s Cities is a dramatic story of heartbreak and destruction but also of human idealism and resourcefulness, opening up possibilities for our own time.
Boston Against Busing
Author: Ronald P. Formisano
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869708
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot explain the movement. Class resentment, ethnic rivalries, and the defense of neighborhood turf all played powerful roles in the protest. In a new epilogue, Formisano brings the story up to the present day, describing the end of desegregation orders in Boston and other cities. He also examines the nationwide trend toward the resegregation of schools, which he explains is the result of Supreme Court decisions, attacks on affirmative action, white flight, and other factors. He closes with a brief look at the few school districts that have attempted to base school assignment policies on class or economic status.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869708
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot explain the movement. Class resentment, ethnic rivalries, and the defense of neighborhood turf all played powerful roles in the protest. In a new epilogue, Formisano brings the story up to the present day, describing the end of desegregation orders in Boston and other cities. He also examines the nationwide trend toward the resegregation of schools, which he explains is the result of Supreme Court decisions, attacks on affirmative action, white flight, and other factors. He closes with a brief look at the few school districts that have attempted to base school assignment policies on class or economic status.
Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo
Author: Steven J. L. Taylor
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791439197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo examines how the citizens and the political leadership of the two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools. Although the cities shared many similarities, they witnessed very dissimilar outcomes. Taylor covers key factors such as inter-ethnic relations and the struggle of various ethnic groups for political empowerment, and focuses on the political development of African American communities in urban environments and the role of Black elected leadership in helping to diffuse potentially volatile situations.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791439197
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Desegregation in Boston and Buffalo examines how the citizens and the political leadership of the two cities dealt with controversial court orders to end the segregation of public schools. Although the cities shared many similarities, they witnessed very dissimilar outcomes. Taylor covers key factors such as inter-ethnic relations and the struggle of various ethnic groups for political empowerment, and focuses on the political development of African American communities in urban environments and the role of Black elected leadership in helping to diffuse potentially volatile situations.
Minority Students
Author: Meyer Weinberg
Publisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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School Integration
Author:
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Category : Segregation in education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Segregation in education
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Subject Catalog of the Institute of Governmental Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
Subject Catalog
Author: University of California, Berkeley. Institute of Governmental Studies
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 868
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