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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
Kevin M. Kruse
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During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as ""The City Too Busy to Hate, "" a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: ""The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."" In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of ""white flight"" in Atlanta and elsewhere.
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Cover Page
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Title Page
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Copyright Page
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Dedication Page
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter One “The City Too Busy to Hate”: Atlanta and the Politics of Progress
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Chapter Two From Radicalism to “Respectability”: Race, Residence, and Segregationist Strategy
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Chapter Three From Community to Individuality: Race, Residence, and Segregationist Ideology
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Chapter Four The Abandonment of Public Space: Desegregation, Privatization, and the Tax Revolt
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Chapter Five The “Second Battle of Atlanta”: Massive Resistance and the Divided Middle Class
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Chapter Six The Fight for “Freedom of Association”: School Desegregation and White Withdrawal
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Chapter Seven Collapse of the Coalition: Sit-Ins and the Business Rebellion
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Chapter Eight “The Law of the Land”: Federal Intervention and the Civil Rights Act
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Chapter Nine City Limits: Urban Separatism and Suburban Secession
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Epilogue The Legacies of White Flight
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List of Abbreviations
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Notes
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Index
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Published: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
- 9780691133867 (paperback)
- 9781400848973 (ebook)