Making Good Neighbors Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia

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Free Download Abigail Perkiss, "Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia"
English | ISBN: 0801452287 | 2014 | 248 pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents, and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods, Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which began in the years following World War II and continued through the turn of the twenty-first century.

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