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The Depression comes to the South Side : protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933 /

"In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline -- a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reed, Christopher Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline -- a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused diverse responses from groups in the black community, distinguished by their political ideologies and stated goals. Some favored government intervention, others reform of social services. Some found expression in mass street demonstrations, militant advocacy of expanded civil rights, or revolutionary calls for a complete overhaul of the capitalist economic system. Reed examines the complex interactions among these various groups as they played out within the community as it sought to find common ground to address the economic stresses that threatened to tear the Black Metropolis apart"--Provided by publisher
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-175) and index.
ISBN:9780253005526
0253005523
9781280596469
1280596465