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Author Houston, Benjamin.

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

Publication Info. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction. The Nashville Way; One. A Manner of Segregation: Lived Race Relations and Racial Etiquette; Two. The Triumph of Tokenism: Public School Desegregation; Three. The Shame and the Glory: The 1960 Sit-ins; Four. The Kingdom or Individual Desires?: Movement and Resistance during the 1960s; Five. Black Power/White Power: Militancy in Late 1960s Nashville; Six. Cruel Mockeries: Renewing a City; Epilogue. Achieving Justice; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
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Subject African Americans -- Tennessee -- Nashville.
African Americans.
Tennessee -- Nashville.
Nashville (Tenn.) -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781283733366 (DLC) 2012008404
ISBN 9780820343280 (electronic book)
0820343285 (electronic book)
0820343269
9780820343266
9781283733366
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