Some of my best friends are Black the strange story of integration in America
Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic...
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| 505 | 0 | |a PART 1. -- Letter from a Birmingham suburb -- Bus kid -- A place apart -- Oreo -- What can brown do for you? -- Go rebels? -- PART 2. -- Planning for permanence -- There goes the Neighborhood -- "Have you seen the country club district?" -- 49/63 or fight -- Turf -- Desirable associations -- PART 3. -- Why do black people drink Hawaiian Punch -- The old boys' network -- Mad black men -- A whole new bag -- The inescapable network -- What's black about it? -- PART 4. -- Canaan -- The race that prays together -- The strange career of Jesus Christ -- The miracle of the Grand Coteau -- Into the wilderness -- Milk and honey. | |
| 520 | |a Chronicles America's troubling relationship with race through four interrelated stories: the transformation of a once-racist Birmingham school system; a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination; the curious racial divide of the Madison Avenue ad world; and a Louisiana Catholic parish's forty-year effort to build an integrated church. | ||
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