LEADER 04713nam 2200673 450 001 9910789296803321 005 20230803201921.0 010 $a0-8014-7085-4 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801470851 035 $a(CKB)3710000000093253 035 $a(OCoLC)874563368 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10850181 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001136126 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12531196 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136126 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11103228 035 $a(PQKB)11200181 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510036 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138581 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550519 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58216 035 $a(DE-B1597)478613 035 $a(OCoLC)979684520 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801470851 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138581 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10850181 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683625 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000093253 100 $a20140403h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaking good neighbors $ecivil rights, liberalism, and integration in postwar Philadelphia /$fAbigail Perkiss 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (248 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-52343-6 311 $a0-8014-5228-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tList of Abbreviations --$tIntroduction: Civil Rights' Stepchild --$t1. "A Home of One's Own": The Battle over Residential Space in Twentieth- Century America --$t2. Finding Capital in Diversity: The Creation of Racially Integrated Space --$t3. Marketing Integration: Interracial Living in the White Imagination --$t4. Integration, Separation, and the Fight for Black Identity --$t5. "Well- Trained Citizens and Good Neighbors": Educating an Integrated America --$t6. Confrontations in Black and White: The Crisis of Integration --$t7. The Choice to Live Differently: Reimagining Integration at Century's End --$tEpilogue: West Mount Airy and the Legacy of Integration --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIn the 1950's and 1960's, 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 1960's and 1970's. 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 1950's and 1960's helped to define the neighborhood as it exists today. 606 $aCivil rights$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLiberalism$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xRace relations 607 $aMount Airy (Philadelphia, Pa.) 615 0$aCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aLiberalism$xHistory 676 $a305.8009748/11 700 $aPerkiss$b Abigail$f1981-$01479964 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789296803321 996 $aMaking good neighbors$93721132 997 $aUNINA