The containment : Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the battle for racial justice in the North

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Título:

Autor personal:

Adams, Michelle, 1963- author.

GVPL_EDITION:

First edition.

PUBDATE:

2025

GVPL_PUBLICATION_INFO:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

Descripción física:

xxviii, 494 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780374250423

Síntesis:

"A history of post-Brown school desegregation in Detroit, with a focus on Milliken v. Bradley"-- Provided by publisher.

Contenido:

Part I: "Soul Force" -- Clash in Midtown -- Sympathy, knowledge, and the truth -- Slay the dragon -- The housing-schools nexus -- Soul force -- Democracy's finest hour -- Money is power and it works -- Right thing to lose -- Part II: The containment -- Up for grabs -- Taking on Northern Jim Crow -- Another brick in the wall -- Garbage in, garbage out -- Ten buses -- Accident of geography -- Something we comfortably tell ourselves -- Going for metro -- Part III: Milliken v. Bradley -- Now more than ever -- Farewell to the Warren court -- A ticking clock -- Milliken v. Bradley -- The story -- Fences -- The consequences -- "True integration".

Materia personal:

Milliken, William G., 1922-2019-Trials, litigation, etc.

Bradley, Ronald-Trials, litigation, etc.

Materia corporativa:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Detroit Branch -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Detroit (Mich.). Board of Education.

Término de la materia:

Discrimination in education -- Law and legislation -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.

Busing for school integration -- Law and legislation -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Michigan -- Detroit -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Término geográfico:

Detroit (Mich.) -- History -- 20th century.