Book Review: Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia by Abigail Perkiss

Abstract

In Making Good Neighbors, Abigail Perkiss presents a detailed history of West Mount Airy, one of the frst neighborhoods in the nation to embrace racially integrated living, and explores the self-conscious efforts of the West Mount Airy Neighbors Association (WMAN) to draw local, national, and international attention to the efforts of its well-educated and historically minded community members.

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