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Making Good Neighbors - Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia (Paperback)
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Making Good Neighbors - Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia (Paperback)
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In the 1950s and 1960s, as the white residents, real estate agents,
and municipal officials of many American cities fought to keep
African Americans out of traditionally white neighborhoods,
Philadelphia's West Mount Airy became one of the first
neighborhoods in the nation where residents came together around a
community-wide mission toward intentional integration. As West
Mount Airy experienced transition, homeowners fought economic and
legal policies that encouraged white flight and threatened the
quality of local schools, seeking to find an alternative to racial
separation without knowing what they would create in its place. In
Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss tells the remarkable story
of West Mount Airy, drawing on archival research and her oral
history interviews with residents to trace their efforts, which
began in the years following World War II and continued through the
turn of the twenty-first century.The organizing principles of
neighborhood groups like the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association
(WMAN) were fundamentally liberal and emphasized democracy,
equality, and justice; the social, cultural, and economic values of
these groups were also decidedly grounded in middle-class ideals
and white-collar professionalism. As Perkiss shows, this liberal,
middle-class framework would ultimately become contested by more
militant black activists and from within WMAN itself, as community
leaders worked to adapt and respond to the changing racial
landscape of the 1960s and 1970s. The West Mount Airy case stands
apart from other experiments in integration because of the
intentional, organized, and long-term commitment on the part of
WMAN to biracial integration and, in time, multiracial and
multiethnic diversity. The efforts of residents in the 1950s and
1960s helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today.
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