White flight : Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism

White flight : Atlanta and the making of modern conservatism / Kevin M. Kruse.

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: &qu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.
Series:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans > Segregation > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
Conservatism > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
White people > Georgia > Atlanta > Migrations > 20th century.
White people > Georgia > Atlanta > Politics and government > 20th century.
Government, Resistance to > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Conservatism & Liberalism.
African Americans > Segregation
Conservatism
Government, Resistance to
Politics and government
Race relations
White people > Politics and government
Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Georgia > Atlanta
History
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Table of Contents:
  • "The city too busy to hate": Atlanta and the politics of progress
  • From radicalism to "respectability": race, residence, and segregationist strategy
  • From community to individuality: race, residence, and segregationist ideology
  • The abandonment of public space: desegregation, privatization, and the tax revolt
  • The "second battle of Atlanta": massive resistance and the divided middle class
  • The flight for "freedom of association": school desegregation and White withdrawal
  • Collapse of the coalition: sit-ins and the business rebellion
  • "The law of the land": federal intervention and the Civil Rights Act
  • City limits: urban separatism and suburban secession
  • The legacies of White flight.

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