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Title Baltimore '68 [electronic resource] : riots and rebirth in an American city / edited by Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, and Elizabeth M. Nix.

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Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xxii, 272 p.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The dream deferred : the assasination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the holy week uprising of 1968 / Peter Levy -- Jewell Chambers : oral history -- Why was there no rioting in Cherry Hill? / John Breihan -- "White man's lane" : hollowing out the highway ghetto in Baltimore / Emily Lieb -- Spiro T. Agnew and the burning of Baltimore / Alex Csicsek -- Tom Carney : oral history -- "Church people work on the integration problem" : the Brethren's interracial work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 / Jessica I. Elfenbein -- Convergences and divergences : the civil rights and anti-war movements, Baltimore / W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor -- The Pats family : oral history -- How the 1968 riots stopped school desegregation in Baltimore / Howell Baum -- Pivot in perception : the impact of the 1968 uprising on three Baltimore business districts / Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner -- "Where we live" : Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976 / Francesca Gamber -- Planning for the people : the early years of Baltimore's neighborhood design center / Mary Potorti -- Robert Birt : oral history -- Epilogue. History, and memory : why it matters that we remember / Clement A. Price.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Race riots -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- History -- 20th century.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
	Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Elfenbein, Jessica I.
	Hollowak, Thomas L.
	Nix, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Morrow), 1964-
	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9781439906613 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9781439906620 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9781439906637 (electronic bk.)