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Title:
The containment : Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the battle for racial justice in the North / Michelle Adams.
ISBN:
9780374250423
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

©2025
Physical Description:
xxviii, 494 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Contents:
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".
Summary:
"A history of post-Brown school desegregation in Detroit, with a focus on Milliken v. Bradley." -- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1431883734
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