Postwar Struggle for Civil Rights - African Americans in San Francisco, 19451975

Informationen zum Autor Paul T. Miller is an independent researcher living in the Bay Area. He holds a doctorate in African American Studies from Temple University and has taught courses in African American history and African history and culture. His research interests include postwar African American history! African development and global peace studies. Klappentext Tells the story of African Americans in San Francisco! tracing the obstacles faced and triumphs achieved in areas as housing! employment and education! and adding to our understandings of civil rights and the intersection of race and geography within the postwar period of American history. Zusammenfassung Paul T. Miller tells the story of African Americans in San Francisco, tracing the obstacles faced and triumphs achieved in areas as housing, employment and education, and adding to our understandings of civil rights and the intersection of race and geography within the postwar period of American history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. The Postwar 1940s 2. Challenges of the 1950s: Discrimination, Employment and Crime 3. Housing in the 1950s 4. 1960–1964, Protest and Struggle 5. 1965–1969, Rights and Repression 6. Housing in the 1960s 7. The 1970s, Progress and Setbacks. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Paul T. Miller, Miller Paul T.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.09.2009
• EAN: 9780415806015
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80601-5
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Studies in African American History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, California, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, Civil rights & citizenship, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Civics and citizenship