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A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960volume 1 - Schirmer, Sherry Lamb
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This study addresses the emergence of ghettos alongside the formative issues of race, gender, segregation, and the origins of white ideologies in the urban Midwest. 1930s Kansas City maintained a system of racial exclusion by claiming that segregation was necessary to prevent racial violence. At the same time, a new perception emerged among white liberals that inte- gration would produce a better society by transforming human character. After World War II, African American organizations devised demonstration strategies that ...

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A City Divided: The Racial Landscape of Kansas City, 1900-1960volume 1 2016, University of Missouri Press

ISBN-13: 9780826220950

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