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Not alms but opportunity : the Urban League and the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 / Toure F. Reed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Touré F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social classes--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Social classes.
- Social classes--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.
- African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
- African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- National Urban League--History--20th century.
- National Urban League.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. Reed traces th
- Contents:
- The ideological origins of the Urban League
- Community development and housing, 1910-1932
- Vocational training, employment, and job placements, 1910-1932
- Labor unions, social reorganization, and the acculturation of Black workers, 1910-1932
- Vocational guidance and organized labor during the New Deal, 1933-1940
- Employment from the March on Washington to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950
- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908822-4-0
- 979-88-9313-289-2
- 1-4696-0570-8
- 0-8078-8854-0
- OCLC:
- 405087324
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