To ask for an equal chance : African Americans in the Great Depression /

The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. To Ask for an Equal Chance explores black experiences during this period and the intertwined challenges posed by race and class. "Last hired, firstfired," black workers lost their jobs at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009.
Colección:African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Temas:
1877-1964
African Americans > History > 1877-1964.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Noirs américains > Histoire > 1877-1964.
Crises économiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African Americans
Depressions
Schwarze
Soziale Situation
Depression > Wirtschaft
United States
USA
Schwarze > Wirtschaftskrise > USA > Geschichte 1900-1945.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • No strangers to hardship : Black life before the crash
  • Last hired, first fired : working through the Great Depression
  • Of New Deals and raw deals
  • "Let us build" : political organizing in the Depression era
  • Weary blues : Black communities and Black culture
  • Epilogue : "Should I sacrifice to live 'Half American'?"

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