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Author Schirmer, Sherry Lamb, 1947-

Title A city divided : the racial landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960 / Sherry Lamb Schirmer.

Imprint Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Reitz  305.8009778 Sch35c, 2002    ---  Lib Use Only
Description viii, 261 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-251) and index.
Contents Introduction: With Race in Mind -- Social Status and the Control of Urban Space -- Setting Boundaries: The Emergence of Jim Crow, 1900-1920 -- The Webwork of Race, Status, and Gender, 1900-1920 -- Racial Geography: Partitioning Kansas City in the 1920s -- Under Quarantine: The Social Meaning of Race in the 1920s -- Magician's Tricks: Black Activism and White Response, 1920-1940 -- "Truth Is Fatal": The Civil Rights Activists, Black and White -- Expedient Fears: Leadership and the Politics of Denial, 1950-1958.
Note 35902004207391 c.1 Special Collec. Reitz. Gift of Charles Reitz.
Subject Kansas City (Mo.) -- Race relations.
Kansas City (Mo.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN 082621391X (alk. paper)
9780826213914 (alk. paper)

 
    
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