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The containment : Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the battle for racial justice in the North / Michelle Adams.
"A history of post-Brown school desegregation in Detroit, with a focus on Milliken v. Bradley"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780374250423 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0374250421 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xxviii, 494 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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". |
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