The containment : Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the battle for racial justice in the North
(2025)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
344.798/ADAMS,M

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 344.798/ADAMS,M Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
©2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

xxviii, 494 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374250423, 0374250421 :, 0374250421, 9780374250423
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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"

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

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