Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments 2. Editors' Introduction - Jessica I. Elfenbein, Thomas L. Hollowak, Elizabeth M. Nix 3. Foreword, Howard F. Gillette 4. Peter Levy, The Dream Deferred: The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Holy Week Uprising of 1968 5. Jewell Chambers : Edited Oral History 6. John Breihan, Why Was There No Rioting in Cherry Hill? 7. Emily Lieb, "White Man's Lane": Hollowing Out the Highway Ghetto in Baltimore 8. Alex Csicsek, Spiro T. Agnew and the Burning of Baltimore 9. Tom Carney: Edited Oral History 10. Jessica I. Elfenbein, University of Baltimore, 'Church People Work on the Integration Problem': The Brethren's Interracial Work in Baltimore, 1949-1972 11. W. Edward Orser and Joby Taylor, Convergences and Divergences: The Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements, Baltimore 1968 12. The Pats Family: Edited Oral History 13. Howell Baum, How the 1968 Riots Stopped School Desegregation in Baltimore 14. Elizabeth M. Nix and Deborah R. Weiner, Pivot in Perception: The Impact of the 1968 Uprising on Three Baltimore Business Districts 15. Frankie Gamber, "Where We Live": Greater Homewood Community Corporation, 1967-1976" 16. Mary Potorti, Planning for the People: The Early Years of Baltimore's Neighborhood Design Center 17. Robert Birt : Edited Oral History 18. Epilogue, Clement A. Price, History and Memory: Why it Matters that We Remember

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The first comprehensive study of one city, Baltimore, forty years after the unrest that swept across some 120 U.S. cities.

About the Author

Jessica I. Elfenbein is Associate Provost and Professor of History and Community Studies at the University of Baltimore. She directed the prize-winning Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth, and is the author of Civics, Commerce, and Community: The History of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, 1889-1989, and The Making of a Modern City: Philanthropy, Civic Culture and the Baltimore YMCA. She is also an editor of From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore's Past. Thomas L. Hollowak is Associate Director for Special Collections at the University of Baltimore's Langsdale Library. He created and maintains the Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth website, and is the author of University of Baltimore, and an editor of From Mobtown to Charm City: New Perspectives on Baltimore's Past. Elizabeth (Betsy) M. Nix is Assistant Professor in the Community Studies and History Programs at the University of Baltimore. She supervised the oral history component of Baltimore '68: Riots and Rebirth.

Reviews

"Baltimore '68 has much to offer, and its authors (as part of a six-year oral history project helmed by Elfenbein, a University of Baltimore associate provost, with an expanded roster of interviews), clearly tried mightily to include as many voices as possible. The book contains just a few of the oral histories, interspersed with expert historical analysis that seeks to contextualize the events... They do succeed in rethinking events that many see as the modern-day turning point for Baltimore City." The Baltimore City Paper "Baltimore '68" project. It read, "[T]he work is strong throughout... A welcome addition to what is emerging as a new wave of high-quality scholarship on urban racial violence during the 1960s. Its greatest strength is its multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach to the subject, which offers ample space for readers to appreciate the clashing perspectives and contested meanings of this particular urban disorder. Like the best scholarly work on race riots in the 1960s, this book demolishes claims that racial discord was the result of conspiratorial 'outside agitators,' communists, or black radicals." Public Historian, Spring 2012 "Baltimore '68 is a collection of ten essays and four expertly edited oral histories that provide useful insights into the local and national significance of the responses in Baltimore to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr." Journal of American History, September 2012