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

The containment : Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the battle for racial justice in the North / Michelle Adams.

Adams, Michelle, 1963- (author.).

Summary:

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

Record details

  • 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.

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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Subject: Discrimination in education > Law and legislation > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Busing for school integration > Law and legislation > Michigan > Detroit > History.
Milliken, William G., 1922-2019 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Bradley, Ronald > Trials, litigation, etc.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Detroit Branch > Trials, litigation, etc.
African Americans > Civil rights > Michigan > Detroit > Social conditions > 20th century.
Detroit (Mich.). Board of Education.
Detroit (Mich.) > History > 20th century.

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  • 3 of 3 copies available at Kenton County.

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Covington Branch 344.730798 A215c 2025 (Text) 33126025908900 New Adult Nonfiction Available -
Erlanger Branch 344.730798 A215c 2025 (Text) 33126025908884 New Adult Nonfiction Available -
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  • Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2024 August

    Adams, the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, writes about the social and legal struggle to integrate the schools of Detroit's suburbs and the 1974 Supreme Court decision in the Milliken v. Bradley case, which stopped school desegregation in the North. Prepub Alert. Copyright 2024 Library Journal

    Copyright 2024 Library Journal.
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