To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing

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Tracy Elaine K'Meyer

To Live Peaceably Together

The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing

Tracy Elaine K'Meyer

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University of Chicago Press
13 May 2022

History of the Americas; Quakers (Religious Society of Friends); Black & Asian studies

Series: Historical Studies of Urban America

A groundbreaking look at how a predominantly white faith-based group reset the terms of the fight to integrate US cities.

The bitterly tangled webs of race and housing in the postwar United States hardly suffer from a lack of scholarly attention. But Tracy K'Meyer's To Live Peaceably Together delivers something truly new to the field: a lively examination of a predominantly white faith-based group-the Quaker-aligned American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)-that took a unique and ultimately influential approach to cultivating wider acceptance of residential integration. Built upon detailed stories of AFSC activists and the obstacles they encountered in their work in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Richmond, California, To Live Peaceably Together is an engaging and timely account of how the organization allied itself to a cause that demanded constant learning, reassessment, and self-critique. K'Meyer details the spiritual and humanist motivations behind the AFSC, its members' shifting strategies as they came to better understand structural inequality, and how those strategies were eventually adopted by a variety of other groups. Her fine-grained investigation of the cultural ramifications of housing struggles provides a fresh look at the last seventy years of racial activism.

By: Tracy Elaine K'Meyer
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780226817811
ISBN 10: 0226817814
Series: Historical Studies of Urban America
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 13 May 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Chapter 1 Getting Started: Launching the Housing Opportunities Programs Chapter 2 Organizing the Suburbs: White Fair Housers and Black Pioneers Chapter 3 Direct Action: Battering the Gates, Nonviolently Chapter 4 Speaking Truth to Power: Using the Power of Government to Integrate Housing Chapter 5 Community Organizing: A People Program in a Housing Context Conclusion Acknowledgments Archive Collection Abbreviations Notes Index

Tracy E. K'Meyer is professor of history at the University of Louisville

Reviews for To Live Peaceably Together: The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing

To Live Peaceably Together is an original and highly readable book that reorients our understanding of the Black Freedom Struggle in the North by focusing on an advocacy group run mainly by white allies, a historical topic with great contemporary relevance. I salute K'Meyer's achievement in telling this fascinating and overlooked story. * Todd Michney, Georgia Institute of Technology *