Baltimore '68 riots and rebirth in an American city

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Title:

Baltimore '68 riots and rebirth in an American city

Author:

Elfenbein, Jessica I.

Publication Information:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

Physical Description:

xxii, 272 p.

Contents:

The dream deferred : the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the holy week uprising of 1968 / Peter Levy -- Jewell Chambers : oral history -- Why was there no rioting in Cherry Hill? / John Breihan -- "White man's lane" : hollowing out the highway ghetto in Baltimore / Emily Lieb -- Spiro T. Agnew and the burning of Baltimore / Alex Csicsek -- Tom Carney : oral history -- "Church people work on the integration problem" : the Brethren's interracial work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 / Jessica I. Elfenbein -- Convergences and divergences : the civil rights and anti-war movements, Baltimore / W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor -- The Pats family : oral history -- How the 1968 riots stopped school desegregation in Baltimore / Howell Baum -- Pivot in perception : the impact of the 1968 uprising on three Baltimore business districts / Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner -- "Where we live" : Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976 / Francesca Gamber -- Planning for the people : the early years of Baltimore's neighborhood design center / Mary Potorti -- Robert Birt : oral history -- Epilogue. History, and memory : why it matters that we remember / Clement A. Price.

Subject Term:

Race riots -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 20th century.

Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Added Author:

Elfenbein, Jessica I.

Hollowak, Thomas L.