The struggle for change : race and the politics of reconciliation in modern Richmond /
"A Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles provides a unique take on Richmond's racial politics since the civil rights era by demonstrating that the...
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: "Color Was Never Something People Were Blind To"
- A City Breaking, 1954-1970. The Marsh Revolution: "Build People, Not Things" ; Annexation: "The Only Answer" ; Dogtown: "We Never Crossed the Bridge"
- A City Broken, 1970-1984. Richmond Community Action Program: "Where the Grass Roots Is Forever Active" ; Project One: "A Dividing Line Separating Whites and Blacks" ; Richmond Renaissance and Sixth Street Marketplace: "A Bridge of Unity"
- A City Healing, 1985-Present. Richmond Urban Institute: "The Conscience of Richmond" ; Moral Re-Armament and Hope in the Cities: Healing the Heart of America ; Monument Avenue: "Richmond Is No Longer the Capital of the Confederacy"
- Epilogue: "Capital of Reconciliation?"