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Article: The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968.
- Article from:
- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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The Separate City is an engaging and well-written study that examines the physical and political development of African-American communities in three southern cities, Atlanta, Georgia, Memphis, Tennessee, and Richmond, Virginia. The choice of cities is particularly good because each city presents a different context for understanding the rise of what the authors call "the separate city" and the eventual development of African-American political ascendancy in the urban South. Not only did the timing of when African Americans emerged as the dominant actors in local politics differ significantly among the cities, but Atlanta, Richmond, and Memphis all had different political ...