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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 African American Migration and the Emerging Discourse of Northern Racial Liberalism

2 Protecting Urban Peace: Northern Racial Liberalism and the Limits of Racial Equality

3 Between Ossian Sweet and the Great Depression: Tolerance and Northern Racial Liberal Discourse in the Late 1920s

4 “Living Happily at the Taxpayers’ Expense”: City Managers, African American “Freeloaders,” and White Taxpayers

5 “Let Us Act Funny”: Snow Flake Grigsby and Civil Rights Liberalism in the 1930s

6 Northern Racial Liberalism and Detroit’s Labor Movement

7 “Better Housing Makes Better Citizens”: Slum Clearance and Low-Cost Housing

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

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