As Long As They Don't Move Next Door Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods

by Meyer, Stephen Grant

• ISBN13: 9780847697014
• ISBN10: 0847697010
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-16
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Despite the commonly held perception that most northern citizens embraced racial equality, As Long As They Don't Move Next Door graphically demonstrates the variety of methods including violence and intimidation, unjust laws, restrictive covenants,

Author Biography

Stephen Grant Meyer received his Ph.D. from the University of Alabama and is currently a writer and historian living in Alexandria, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction: ``Keep This Neighborhood White''	1	(12)
Border Conflict	13	(17)
Great Migration, Great Conflagration	30	(18)
Too Depressed to Fight, Much	48	(16)
Housing during Wartime	64	(15)
A Fair Deal for Black Americans	79	(19)
A Southern Exposure	98	(17)
``A Raisin in the Sun''	115	(18)
Civil Rights	133	(17)
``A New Epoch''	150	(22)
Housing in a Great Society:Part I	172	(25)
Housing in a Great Society:Part II	197	(15)
Afterword: Keeping the Neighborhood White	212	(19)
Appendix	231	(10)
Notes	241	(52)
Bibliography	293	(43)
Index	336	(8)
About the Author	344