A New Deal for Bronzeville Housing, Employment, and Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955【電子書籍】[ Lionel Kimble Jr ]

＜p＞Illinois State Historical Society Certificate of Excellence 2016＜/p＞ ＜p＞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. The area soon became the epicenter of community activism as working-class African Americans struggled for equality in housing and employment. In this study, Lionel Kimble Jr. demonstrates how these struggles led to much of the civil rights activism that occurred from 1935 to 1955 in Chicago and shows how this working-class activism and culture helped to ground the early civil rights movement. Despite the obstacles posed by the Depression, blue-collar African Americans worked with leftist organizations to counter job discrimination and made strong appeals to New Deal allies for access to public housing. Kimble details how growing federal intervention in local issues durin．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る