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

Informationen zum Autor Cheryl Lynn Greenberg 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. Zusammenfassung 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 Afric... Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: No Strangers to Hardship: Black Life before the Crash Chapter 2: Last Hired, First Fired: Working through the Great Depression Chapter 3: Of New Deals and Raw Deals Chapter 4: "Let Us Build": Political Organizing in the Depression Era Chapter 5: Weary Blues: Black Communities and Black Culture Epilogue: "Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half American'?" Documents Bibliographic Essay

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, Greenberg Cheryl Lynn
• Assisted by: Nina Mjagkij (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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.10.2010
• EAN: 9780742551893
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-5189-3
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: The African American History Series; African American History (Rowm; The African American Experience Series; African American History (Rowm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of the Americas, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, African American History