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Demolition Means Progress : Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Highsmith, Andrew R. (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Series:Historical studies of urban America.
Subjects:
Flint (Mich.) > History.
Flint (Mich.) > Economic conditions.
Flint (Mich.) > Social conditions.
City planning > Social aspects > Michigan > Flint.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • City building and boundary making
  • From community education to neighborhood schools
  • Jim Crow, GM Crow
  • Suburban renewal
  • The metropolitan moment
  • "Our city believes in lily-white neighborhoods"
  • Jim Crow in the era of civil rights
  • Suburban crisis
  • The battle over school desegregation
  • "The fall of Flint".