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来源

JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY,Vol.44,Issue4,P.691-712

语言

英文

关键字

segregation; Baltimore; African American; Progressive Era; West Segregation Ordinances; NEIGHBORHOOD

作者单位

[Halpin, Dennis P.] Virginia Tech, African Amer Labor & Urban Hist, Blacksburg, VA USA. Halpin, DP (reprint author), Virginia Tech, Dept Hist, 417 Major Williams Hall,220 Stanger St, Blacksburg, VA 24061 USA. E-Mail: dphalpin@vt.edu

摘要

Beginning in the late 1890s, battles erupted along Baltimore's racial frontiers as African Americans moved into predominately white neighborhoods. This article analyzes the fight to impose residential segregation by focusing on events on the streets. This vantage point reveals a fuller picture of the movement to impose legalized segregation in Baltimore. Attempts to maintain racially exclusive neighborhoods in Baltimore began years before the passage of the West Segregation Ordinances in 1910. A street-level examination emphasizes the violence and racismoften elided in top-down analysesthat were central to the push for legalized segregation. It also demonstrates the significance of grassroots activists in this story. The movement to impose residential segregation was both promulgated and opposed at the grassroots.