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Article: The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968
- Article from:
- The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
- Article date:
- April 1, 1996
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The Separate City: Black Communities in the Urban South, 1940-1968. By CHRISTOPHER SILVER and JOHN V. MOESER. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995. xii, 220 pp. $29.95.
THE central theme of this book is that the "separate city" of black settlement in the urban South arose from broader patterns of racial separation and discrimination, nurtured important black institutions and leadership, and provided the foundation for new black political power-and the demise of these separate institutions-as the cities themselves verged increasingly on weakness or even collapse.
Focusing on Atlanta, Memphis, and Richmond, Christopher Silver and John V. Moeser examine patterns of black settlement, ...