Black politics in New Deal Atlanta /

In 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of educated African Americans. However, Jim Crow's dictates meant they were almost entirely excluded from public life. Ferguson shows how Roosevelt's New Deal opened up oppportunities for black Atlantans struggling to acheive full ci...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ferguson, Karen (Karen Jane)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Colección:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Temas:
1900-1999
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American social reformers > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Georgia > Atlanta.
Noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siècle.
Noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Réformateurs sociaux noirs américains > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Élite (Sciences sociales) > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta > Histoire > 20e siècle.
New Deal > Géorgie (État) > Atlanta.
HISTORY > State & Local.
New Deal, 1933-1939
African American social reformers
African Americans > Politics and government
African Americans > Social conditions
Elite (Social sciences)
Politics and government
Race relations
Social conditions
Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations.
Georgia > Atlanta
Humaniora > Historie.
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The wheel within a wheel: black Atlanta and the reform elite
  • A road not taken: the radical response to the Great Depression
  • Carpetbaggers and scalawags: the new politics of the new deal
  • Lifting the taboo: the Black New Deal in Atlanta
  • Unwanted attention: Black workers and the New Deal
  • The new face of Black activism
  • A jungle world breeding jungle life: the white campaign for slum clearance and public housing
  • A laboratory for citizenship: the Black campaign for slum clearance and public housing
  • The inner wheel breaks out: wartime Atlanta and the urban league.

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