Not Alms but Opportunity : The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950 /

Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the c...

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Main Author: Reed, Toure F.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National Urban League.
National Urban League > History > 20th century.
Social conditions
Social classes.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Economic conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Conditions economiques > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1964.
Classes sociales > Illinois > Chicago > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Classes sociales > New York (État) > New York > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Illinois > Chicago > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > New York (État) > New York > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
African Americans > Economic conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > To 1964.
Social classes > Illinois > Chicago > History > 20th century.
Social classes > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (State) > New York.
Illinois > Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The ideological origins of the Urban League
  • Community development and housing, 1910-1932
  • Vocational training, employment, and job placements, 1910-1932
  • Labor unions, social reorganization, and the acculturation of Black workers, 1910-1932
  • Vocational guidance and organized labor during the New Deal, 1933-1940
  • Employment from the March on Washington movement to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950
  • Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950.

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