Depression Comes to the South Side - Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Robert Reed is Professor Emeritus of History at Roosevelt University in Chicago and author of The Emergence of the Black Metropolis, 1910-1933; Black Chicago's First Century, 1833-1900; All the World Is Here: The Black Presence at White City (IUP, 2000); and The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership (IUP, 1997). Klappentext Reed examines the complex interactions among these various groups as they played out within the community as it sought to find common ground to address the economic stresses that threatened to tear the Black Metropolis apart. Zusammenfassung Explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Impact of the Great Depression 2. The Ineffectiveness of Conventional Politics 3. Protest Activism in the Streets 4. Protest Activism Across the Spectrum: Militant to Radical 5. Organized Non-economic Civil Rights Activities 6. Cultural Stirrings and Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Robert Reed, Reed Christopher Robert
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2011
• EAN: 9780253356529
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35652-9
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education