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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

A meticulously detailed account of a momentous case in American history. Michelle Adams gives readers and in-depth look at the pursuit of racial equality by examining where we've been — and where we're going.

Winner of the MAAH Stone Book Award
Winner of the 2025 Avern Cohn Award

A New York Times Notable Book of 2025,
A New Yorker Best Book of 2025 selection
A Library of Michigan Notable Book of 2026
A Christian Science Monitor 25 Best Books of 2025

The epic story of Detroit’s struggle to integrate schools in its suburbs—and the defeat of desegregation in the North.


In 1974, the Supreme Court issued a momentous decision: In the case of Milliken v. Bradley, the justices brought a halt to school deseg...