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- catalog abstract "Patronage, persuasion, and fear during E. H. Crump's years as mayor led a group of Memphians to launch a dynamic experiment in civic reform. David Tucker vividly describes its career, from the early days of national and international ideals to local disintegration as a result of racial tensions culminating in the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. By probing the experience of the nation's seventeenth largest city, Tucker increases our understanding of municipal reform in twentieth-century America. -- Jacket".
- catalog contributor b1086287.
- catalog coverage "Memphis (Tenn.) Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1980.".
- catalog date "1980".
- catalog date "c1980.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1980.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 173-178.".
- catalog description "Patronage, persuasion, and fear during E. H. Crump's years as mayor led a group of Memphians to launch a dynamic experiment in civic reform. David Tucker vividly describes its career, from the early days of national and international ideals to local disintegration as a result of racial tensions culminating in the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. By probing the experience of the nation's seventeenth largest city, Tucker increases our understanding of municipal reform in twentieth-century America. -- Jacket".
- catalog description "Preface -- The city where King was killed -- Mister Crump -- The Federal Unionists -- The Citizens Study Group -- The Orgill administration -- Restyling local government -- Black leadership and desegregation -- The emergence of White Republicanism -- The garbage strike -- Believe in Memphis -- Essay on sources -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 183 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0870492829".
- catalog issued "1980".
- catalog issued "c1980.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press,".
- catalog spatial "Memphis (Tenn.) Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee Memphis".
- catalog spatial "Tennessee Memphis.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Suffrage Tennessee Memphis.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Tennessee Memphis Politics and government.".
- catalog subject "JS1092 .T8".
- catalog subject "Urban renewal Tennessee Memphis.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- The city where King was killed -- Mister Crump -- The Federal Unionists -- The Citizens Study Group -- The Orgill administration -- Restyling local government -- Black leadership and desegregation -- The emergence of White Republicanism -- The garbage strike -- Believe in Memphis -- Essay on sources -- Index.".
- catalog title "Memphis since Crump : bossism, Blacks, and civic reformers, 1948-1968 / by David M. Tucker.".
- catalog type "text".