To Ask for an Equal Chance - African Americans in the Great Depression

Informationen zum Autor Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century. Klappentext 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 1930s. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: No Strangers to Hardship: Black Life before the CrashChapter 2: Last Hired, First Fired: Working through the Great DepressionChapter 3: Of New Deals and Raw DealsChapter 4: "Let Us Build": Political Organizing in the Depression EraChapter 5: Weary Blues: Black Communities and Black CultureEpilogue: "Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half American'?"DocumentsBibliographic Essay

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• Authors: Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Greenberg Cheryl Lynn
• Assisted by: Nina Mjagkij (Editor), Jacqueline M Moore (Editor), Jacqueline M. Moore (Editor), Mjagkij Nina (Editor of the series), Moore Jacqueline M. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2009
• EAN: 9780742551886
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5188-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: The African American History Series; The African American Experience Series; The African American Experience Series; African American History; African American Experience
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, History of the Americas, African American History