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“…Pulling up the stakes: the great migration to Houston, 1900-1930 -- Building a city: migrant settlements in Houston, 1900-1941 -- Beautiful people: agency in Houston, 1900-1941 -- "That was their protection and safeguard": Houston's "new Negro," 1917-1941 -- In "the Garden of Eden": the Houston Renaissance, 1900-1941 -- The black economy at work: wage earners, professionals, economic crisis, and the origins of the second great migration, 1900-1941…”
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“…Brinkley and his empire of fraud in Del Rio -- High stakes gambling underground at Top O'Hill Terrace -- Bascom Giles : bribery at the highest levels in the Texas General Land Office -- The Houston Police dope scandal : selling heroin back to the dealers -- Two brothers and gaming over Gulf waters: the end of the gangster era in Texas…”
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“…Louis; S.K.Troen PART TWO: EARLY URBAN SCHOOL REFORM Introduction Bureaucracy and the Common School: The Example of Portland, Oregon, 1851-1913; D.B.Tyack Urban Reform and the Schools: Kindergartens in Massachusetts; M.Lazerson The Baltimore School Building Program, 1870 to 1900: A Study of Urban School Reform; A.R.Andrews Missing the Mark: Intelligence Testing in the Los Angeles Public Schools, 1922-32; J.Raftery PART THREE: THE EVOLUTION OF URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP AND POLITICS Introduction Pilgrim's Progress: Toward a Social History of the School Superintendency, 1860-1960; D.B.Tyack Progressivism and Curriculum Differentiation: Special Classes in the Atlanta Public Schools, 1898-1923; B.Franklin Taxation and Social Conflict: Teacher Unionism and Public School Finance in Chicago, 1898-1934; M.Murphy The Politics of Educational Retrenchment in Detroit, 1929-1935; J.Mirel PART FOUR: URBAN SCHOOLS IN CONTEMPORARY HISTORY Introduction Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago's Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education; J.L.Rury The Community is Beginning to Rumble: The Origins of Chicano Educational Protest in Houston, 1965-1970; G.San Miguel Bureaucratic Order and Special Children: Urban Schools, 1950s-1960s; J.L.Tropea Race, Social Class, and Educational Reform in an Inner City School; J.Anyon The Milwaukee Voucher Experiment; J.F.Witte High Stakes in Chicago; B.Jacobs Epilogue: Past as Prologue: The Uncertain Future of Urban Schooling…”
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“…Houston, We Have a Problem""; ""1.1 Our Early Approach to Mounting Problems""; ""1.2 Our Problems Continue""; ""1.3 Early Visionaries and the Resistance to Change""; ""1.4 Do Current Free-Market Mechanisms Help?""…”