Demolition Means Progress
Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I Company Town
1 City Building and Boundary Making
2 From Community Education to Neighborhood Schools
3 Jim Crow, GM Crow
4 Suburban Renewal
5 The Metropolitan Moment
Part II Fractured Metropolis
6 “Our City Believes in Lily-White Neighborhoods”
7 Jim Crow in the Era of Civil Rights
8 Suburban Crisis
9 The Battle over School Desegregation
10 “The Fall of Flint”
Epilogue “America Is a Thousand Flints”
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations in the Notes
Notes
Index
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change: Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding Book Award
Finalist
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association: Pacific Coast Branch Book Award
Won
Geography: Urban Geography
History: American History | Urban History
Political Science: Race and Politics
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