Groping toward Democracy : African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dowden-White, Priscilla A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social service.
Social policy.
Social conditions
Race relations.
Public welfare.
Community organization.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African American social reformers.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
Organisation communautaire > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Service social > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Aide sociale > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Missouri > Saint Louis > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Reformateurs sociaux noirs americains > Missouri > Saint Louis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Community organization > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Social service > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Public welfare > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Missouri > Saint Louis > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American social reformers > Missouri > Saint Louis > History > 20th century.
Missouri > Saint Louis.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Social policy.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Saint Louis (Mo.) > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Vice lords, rousters, and public school men and women : the cultural inheritance of an organizing community
  • "Democratizing the city, instead of just a city beautiful" : segregation, city planning, and the roots of interracial organizing
  • "That movement which is active in making communities feel that the Negro is part and parcel of society as a whole" : social work, community organization, and the genesis of a civil rights agenda
  • Teamwork for a better St. Louis : the framework of a social welfare organizing community
  • In the white light of critical public opinion : health care, education, and the manipulation of public culture
  • Not ice cream and cake-- must be something deeper : the neighborhood club and block unit movement
  • Epilogue : "Negroes are-- disturbed these days and fighting for everything."

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