Connerly, Charles E. The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books, September, 2005 by Thurber, Timothy
Connerly, Charles E. The Most Segregated City in America: City Planning and Civil Rights in Birmingham, 1920-1980 Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press 360 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8139-2334-4 Publication Date: June 2005
In 1963, images of bombed black churches and nonviolent African American demonstrators being met by water cannons and police dogs made Birmingham, Alabama, an international symbol of racial oppression. In a work that will be of great interest to scholars interested in urban, southern, and African American history, Charles E. Connerly, a professor of urban and regional planning at Florida State University, presents a detailed look at the spatial context within which these conflicts occurred. By shifting the focus away from the 1960s...
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