White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Kruse, Kevin M.

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.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One “The City Too Busy to Hate”: Atlanta and the Politics of Progress
Chapter Two From Radicalism to “Respectability”: Race, Residence, and Segregationist Strategy
Chapter Three From Community to Individuality: Race, Residence, and Segregationist Ideology
Chapter Four The Abandonment of Public Space: Desegregation, Privatization, and the Tax Revolt
Chapter Five The “Second Battle of Atlanta”: Massive Resistance and the Divided Middle Class
Chapter Six The Fight for “Freedom of Association”: School Desegregation and White Withdrawal
Chapter Seven Collapse of the Coalition: Sit-Ins and the Business Rebellion
Chapter Eight “The Law of the Land”: Federal Intervention and the Civil Rights Act
Chapter Nine City Limits: Urban Separatism and Suburban Secession
Epilogue The Legacies of White Flight
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index

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Published: 2007

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN(s)

9780691133867 (paperback)
9781400848973 (ebook)

Subject

White people -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Migrations -- 20th century.
Government, Resistance to -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century.
White people -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- Politics and government -- 20th century.

White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Overview

Contents