Description
‘A City Inside a City’ is a case have a look at of the civil rights era as it happened in smaller cities, focusing specifically at the struggles involving school integration and bureaucratic reforms in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The efforts to dismantle structures of racial inequality had a very different flavour in smaller northern cities than they did in other parts of the north, and Robinson’s book adds a new dimension to our working out of ways the civil rights movement operated in part of the rustic that has best recently transform an object of center of attention among historians.