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100			_aSavage, Michael _956205
245			_aBeyond Boundaries: _bEnvisioning Metropolitan School Desegregation in Boston, Detroit, and Philadelphia, 1963-1974/
260			_bSage, _c2020.
300			_aVol 46, Issue 1, 2020 ( 129-149 p.).
520			_aFrom the early 1960s onward, battles over school desegregation took on an increasingly metropolitan orientation, one all but destroyed by the Supreme Court’s 1974 decision in Milliken v. Bradley. In Boston, Detroit, and Philadelphia, segregationist urbanites, when faced with a legal challenge either created or made possible by black civil rights advocates, reversed course and trumpeted the advantages of metropolitan desegregation. These tactical metropolitanists recognized that a larger desegregation area reaching into the predominantly white suburbs would mean that white children would continue attending majority-white schools and they understood that stoking suburban opposition to desegregation could defeat integrationist legislation. Despite their segregationist motives, tactical metropolitanists offered a potentially productive solution capable of mitigating white flight, providing lasting integration, and aligning with the efforts of integrationist civil rights advocates in court. Uncovering tactical metropolitanism complicates our understandings of urban segregation and the sources of metropolitan reform. It suggests the need for a metropolitan history of civil rights that centers the importance of municipal boundaries in perpetuating inequality.
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773	0		_09176 _916956 _dThousand Oaks Sage Publications _tJournal of urban history _x00961442
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0096144218801595
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