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Maintaining Segregation

Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955

By: LeeAnn G. Reynolds

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Maintaining Segregation

Children and Racial Instruction in the South, 1920-1955

By: LeeAnn G. Reynolds

In Maintaining Segregation, LeeAnn G. Reynolds explores how black and white children in the early twentieth-century South learned about segregation in their homes, schools, and churches. As public lynchings and other displays of racial violence declined in the 1920s, a culture of silence developed around segregation, serving to forestall, absorb, and deflect individual challenges to the racial hierarchy. The cumulative effect of the racial instruction southern children received, prior to highly publicized news such as the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Montgomery bus boycott, perpetuated segregation by discouraging discussion or critical examination. As the system of segregation evolved throughout the early twentieth century, generations of southerners came of age having little or no knowledge of life without institutionalized segregation. Reynolds examines the motives and approaches of white and black parents to racial instruction in the home and how their methods reinforced the status quo. Whereas white families sought to preserve the legal system of segregation and their place within it, black families faced the more complicated task of ensuring the safety of their children in a racist society without sacrificing their sense of self-worth. Schools and churches functioned as secondary sites for racial conditioning, and Reynolds traces the ways in which these institutions alternately challenged and encouraged the marginalization of black Americans both within society and the historical narrative. In order for subsequent generations to imagine and embrace the sort of racial equality championed by the civil rights movement, they had to overcome preconceived notions of race instilled since childhood. Ultimately, Reynolds’s work reveals that the social change that occurred due to the civil rights movement can only be fully understood within the context of the segregation imposed upon children by southern institutions throughout much of the early twentieth century.

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LSU Press

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0807165662

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The Precious Not Forgotten

By: Leeann Smith

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The Precious Not Forgotten

By: Leeann Smith

Faced with a shattering early-onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Raine Johnston must make two heart-wrenching decisions. One, she will not tell a soul about her condition, and two, she will record as much as she can of her life before she is robbed of her precious memories. After her mother passes suddenly from a stroke, Victoria Johnston receives a journal in the mail. As she beings to read, she comes to see her mother, as well as other family and friends, in a much different light. Through these writings, Victoria embarks on a journey of forgiveness and compassion—for others but most importantly herself. Will this endeavor guide Victoria to the path of love and happiness for which she has so yearned?

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225

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FriesenPress

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1039159583

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9781039159587

Poor Atlanta

Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development

By: LeeAnn B. Lands

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Poor Atlanta

Poverty, Race, and the Limits of Sunbelt Development

By: LeeAnn B. Lands

Poor Atlanta looks at the poor people’s campaigns in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s, which operated in relationship to Sunbelt city- building efforts. With these efforts, city leaders aimed to prevent urban violence, staunch disinvestment, check white flight, and amplify Atlanta’s importance as a business and transportation hub. As urban leaders promoted Forward Atlanta, a program to, in Mayor Ivan Allen Jr.’s words, “sell the city like a product,” poor families insisted that their lives and living conditions, too, should improve. While not always operating within public awareness, antipoverty campaigns among the poor presented a regular and sometimes strident critique of inequality and Atlanta’s uneven urban development. With Poor Atlanta, LeeAnn B. Lands demonstrates that, while eclipsed by the Black freedom movement, antipoverty organizing (including direct action campaigns, legal actions, lobbying, and other forms of activism) occurred with regularity from 1964 through 1976. Her analysis is one of the few citywide studies of antipoverty organizing in late twentieth-century America.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820363278

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9780820363271

The Culture of Property

Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

By: LeeAnn Lands

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The Culture of Property

Race, Class, and Housing Landscapes in Atlanta, 1880-1950

By: LeeAnn Lands

This history of the idea of “neighborhood” in a major American city examines the transition of Atlanta, Georgia, from a place little concerned with residential segregation, tasteful surroundings, and property control to one marked by extreme concentrations of poverty and racial and class exclusion. Using Atlanta as a lens to view the wider nation, LeeAnn Lands shows how assumptions about race and class have coalesced with attitudes toward residential landscape aesthetics and home ownership to shape public policies that promote and protect white privilege. Lands studies the diffusion of property ideologies on two separate but related levels: within academic, professional, and bureaucratic circles and within circles comprising civic elites and rank-and-file residents. By the 1920s, following the establishment of park neighborhoods such as Druid Hills and Ansley Park, white home owners approached housing and neighborhoods with a particular collection of desires and sensibilities: architectural and landscape continuity, a narrow range of housing values, orderliness, and separation from undesirable land uses—and undesirable people. By the 1950s, these desires and sensibilities had been codified in federal, state, and local standards, practices, and laws. Today, Lands argues, far more is at stake than issues of access to particular neighborhoods, because housing location is tied to the allocation of a broad range of resources, including school funding, infrastructure, and law enforcement. Long after racial segregation has been outlawed, white privilege remains embedded in our culture of home ownership.

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0820342238

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Maintaining Segregation

Maintaining Segregation

The Precious Not Forgotten

The Precious Not Forgotten

Poor Atlanta

Poor Atlanta

The Culture of Property

The Culture of Property

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