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Good parents, better homes, and great schools : selling segregation before the New Deal /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benjamin, Karen (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Discrimination in housing > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Discrimination in housing > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Discrimination in housing > Law and legislation > Southern States.
African Americans > Segregation > Southern States.
Segregation in education > Southern States.
Parenting > Political aspects > Southern States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Selling segregation
  • Parenting helps build a foundation for lasting segregation
  • Affluent parents and the suburban residential park
  • Residential parks, Jim Crow, and school inequality
  • Residential parks and the rise of segregation ordinances
  • Black schools and the rise of segregation ordinances
  • Black activism and the battle for better schools
  • The segregation ordinances versus racial zoning
  • Racial zoning and schools
  • The best possible environment for the growing child
  • Child-centered zoning and Euclid
  • De jure segregation after Euclid
  • An enduring legacy
  • Moving forward.