2002. xii + 188 pp. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN: 0-8203-2328-4.
implication elsewhere in the country — began well before 1963″ (p. 2).
reconstruct Birmingham in Atlanta’s image.
retrenchment of segregation in the South, which curtailed economic growth.
and produced a less restricted housing market for blacks.
population to maintain the local custom of segregation of the races” (p. 93).
avoid the racially charged atmosphere.
politics played out in absurd theater,” hampering the city’s progress (p. 140).
For the Magic City, the promise of change remained unfulfilled.
is writing a political biography of former Florida Governor Reubin Askew.