To ask for an equal chance : African Americans in the Great Depression / Cheryl Lynn Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

African American history series (Lanham, Md.)

The African American history series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--History--1877-1964.

African Americans.

Depressions--1929--United States.

Depressions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2010.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. This brief, engaging book covers the range of African Americans' experiences during the 1930's. Cheryl Lynn Greenberg explores employment issues, the New Deal's effect on African Americans, family and community changes, and how the coming of war affected the population. The book straddles the particular-with examinations of specific communities and experiences-and the general-with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.

Contents:

Contents; Chronology; Chapter 01. No Strangers to Hardship: Black Life before the Crash; Chapter 02. Last Hired, First Fired: Working through the Great Depression; Chapter 03. Of New Deals and Raw Deals; Chapter 04. "Let Us Build": Political Organizing in the Depression Era; Chapter 05. Weary Blues: Black Communities and Black Culture; Epilogue: "Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half American'?"; Documents; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.

ISBN:

979-82-16-41112-3

979-82-16-24758-6

1-282-52209-4

9786612522093

1-4422-0051-0

OCLC:

434023319