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The Nashville way : racial etiquette and the struggle for social justice in a southern city / Benjamin Houston

Houston, Benjamin

Athens, Ga. [u.a.] : Univ. of Georgia Press, 2012

XI, 320 S. : Ill., Kt.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

0-8203-4326-9 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0-8203-4327-7 (pbk. : alk. paper); 978-0-8203-4326-6 ( : hardcover : alk. paper); 978-0-8203-4327-3 ( : pbk. : alk. paper)

2012008404

OCoLC: 859369555     

MS 3530      Ähnliche Literatur

F444.N29

305.896/076855

Basisklassifikation: 74.26 (Mittelamerika; Südamerika) <Geographie>

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*Nashville, Tenn. ; Schwarze ; Rassenkonflikt      Zum Register

LOC-SH: African Americans -- Tennessee -- Nashville ; Nashville (Tenn.) -- Race relations

Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to tout what they viewed as the city's amicable race relations. Benjamin Houston offers the first scholarly book on the history of civil rights in Nashville, providing new insights and critiques of this moderate progressivism for which the city has long been credited. Civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, James Bevel, Diane Nash, and James Lawson who came into their own in Nashville were devoted to nonviolent direct action, or what Houston calls th