A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 / Lionel Kimble Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kimble, Lionel, Jr., 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.

African Americans--Civil rights--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Chicago (Ill.)--History--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.).

Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016 During the Great Migration of the 1920s and 1930s, southern African Americans flocked to the South Side Chicago community of Bronzeville, the cultural, political, social, and economic hub of African American life in the city, if not the Midwest.

Contents:

"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression

Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago

Housing the soldiers of the home front

"The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II

From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing

"Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8093-3427-5

OCLC:

922640703