The Nashville Way: Racial Etiquette and the Struggle for Social Justice in a Southern City

Contents

Acknowledgments ix Introduction. The Nashville Way 1 One. A Manner of Segregation: Lived Race Relations and Racial Etiquette 13 Two. The Triumph of Tokenism: Public School Desegregation 47 Three. The Shame and the Glory: The 1960 Sit-ins 82 Four. The Kingdom or Individual Desires?: Movement and Resistance during the 1960s 123 Five. Black Power/White Power: Militancy in Late 1960s Nashville 164 Six. Cruel Mockeries: Renewing a City 202 Epilogue. Achieving Justice 235 Notes 243 Bibliography 295 Index 311 CONTENTS This page intentionally left blank ...