A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 / Lionel Kimble Jr.
Material type: TextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780809334278Subject(s): African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: New deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955.DDC classification: 323.1196/073077311 LOC classification: F548.9.N4 | K55 2015Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing -- "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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