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The Containment
Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North
Book • 2025
In The Containment, Michelle Adams chronicles the devoted activists who fought to uplift Detroit's students amid riots, Black power, and white flight, leading to federal judge Stephen Roth's order for a metropolitan remedy to achieve racial balance.
The book details how the 1974 Supreme Court decision in Milliken v.
Bradley halted this effort, upholding suburban separation and exposing the roots of ongoing racial inequalities.
Through portraits of key figures like Detroit's first Black mayor Coleman Young and Justices Marshall, Rehnquist, and Powell, Adams reveals the national policy of Jim Crow and its mechanisms of containment in housing and schools.
The book details how the 1974 Supreme Court decision in Milliken v.
Bradley halted this effort, upholding suburban separation and exposing the roots of ongoing racial inequalities.
Through portraits of key figures like Detroit's first Black mayor Coleman Young and Justices Marshall, Rehnquist, and Powell, Adams reveals the national policy of Jim Crow and its mechanisms of containment in housing and schools.
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