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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities.
Trade Review"These essays and primary accounts examine the roots of the broad spectrum of events that led to rioting in Baltimore following Martin Luther King's assassination and how these events shaped the social and economic fabric of today's Baltimore. I know it will be taken from library shelves for many years to come as a primary resource for historical study." -Carla D. Hayden, CEO, Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore
Table of Contents1. Acknowledgments 2. Editors' Introduction - Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, Elizabeth M. Nix 3. Foreword, Howard F. Gillette 4. Peter Levy, The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Holy Week Uprising of 1968 5. Jewell Chambers : Edited Oral History 6. John Breihan, Why Was There No Rioting in Cherry Hill? 7. Emily Lieb, "White Man's Lane": Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore 8. Alex Csicsek, Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore 9. Tom Carney: Edited Oral History 10. Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of Baltimore, 'Church People Work on the Integration Problem': The Brethren's Interracial Work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 11. W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor, Convergences and Divergences: The Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, Baltimore 1968 12. The Pats Family: Edited Oral History 13. Howell Baum, How the 1968 Riots Stopped School Desegregation in Baltimore 14. Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner, Pivot in Perception: The Impact of the 1968 Uprising on Three Baltimore Business Districts 15. Frankie Gamber, "Where We Live": Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976" 16. Mary Potorti, Planning for the People: The Early Years of Baltimore's Neighborhood Design Center 17. Robert Birt : Edited Oral History 18. Epilogue, Clement A. Price, History and Memory: Why it Matters that We Remember
