As Long As They Don't Move Next Door: Segregation and Racial Conflict in American Neighborhoods

by Stephen Meyer and Stephen Grant Meyer

Book Overview

Despite the commonly held perception that most northern citizens embraced racial equality, As Long As They Don't Move Next Door graphically demonstrates the variety of methods-including violence and intimidation, unjust laws, restrictive covenants, discrimination by realtors and mortgage lenders, and white flight to suburban enclaves-used by whites to thwart the racial integration of their neighborhoods. Author Stephen Grant Meyer offers the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847697002
• ISBN13: 9780847697007
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"