Author: National Urban LeaguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Urban League Story, 1910-1960
Author: National Urban LeaguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
The Urban League
Author: Edward Shakespear LewisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The National Urban League: 1910-1960
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A History of the Urban League Movement: 1910-1945
Author: Henri Arthur BelfonHistory of the Chicago Urban League
Author: Arvarh E. StricklandPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 9780826213471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Reed, author of The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966, cites Strickland's work as a landmark study of the earliest civil rights efforts in Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.
The National Urban League, 1910-1940
Author: Nancy Joan WeissPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Monograph on the historical impact of the national level urban area league, a Black interest group, on race relations in the USA from 1910 to 1940 - examines the league's efforts to open employment opportunities for blacks and to ease their social adjustment to urban life following rural migration. Annotated bibliography pp. 311 to 315, references and statistical tables.
The Black Revolts
Author: Joseph W. ScottPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 9780870732089
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
How was racism institutionalized in the United States? What strategies have black people used in their struggle for liberation and equality? Joseph Scott addresses these weighty questions from the perspective that at its core, racism is a "legal-political problem in which blacks and whites have been assigned to separate legal estates.'" He enumerates three different forms of exploitation to which black people have been subjected, and seven basic strategies they have used to combat slavery and institutional racism.
Life Behind a Veil
Author: George C. WrightPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807130568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In the period between the Civil War and the Great Depression, Louisville, Kentucky was host to what George C. Wright calls "a polite form of racism." There were no lynchings or race riots, and to a great extent, Louisville blacks escaped the harsh violence that was a fact of life for blacks in the Deep South. Furthermore, black Louisvillians consistently enjoyed and exercised an oft-contested but never effectively retracted enfranchisement. However, their votes usually did not amount to any real political leverage, and there were no radical improvements in civil rights during this period. Instead, there existed a delicate balance between relative privilege and enforced passivity.A substantial paternalism carried over from antebellum days in Louisville, and many leading white citizens lent support to a limited uplifting of blacks in society. They helped blacks establish their own schools, hospitals, and other institutions. But the dual purpose that such actions served, providing assistance while making the maintenance of strict segregation easier, was not incidental. Whites salved their consequences without really threatening an established order. And blacks, obliged to be grateful for the assistance, generally refrained from arguing for real social and political equality for fear of jeopardizing a partially improved situation and regressing to a status similar to that of other southern blacks.In Life Behind a Veil: Blacks in Louisville, Kentucky, 1865 - 1930, George Wright looks at the particulars of this form of racism. He also looks at the ways in which blacks made the most of their less than ideal position, focusing on the institutions that were central to their lives. Blacks in Louisville boasted the first library for blacks in the United States, as well as black-owned banks, hospitals, churches, settlement houses, and social clubs. These supported and reinforced a sense of community, self-esteem, and pride that was often undermined by the white world.Life Behind a Veil is a comprehensive account of race relations, black response to white discrimination, and the black community behind the walls of segregation in this border town. The title echoes Blyden Jackson's recollection of his childhood in Louisville, where blacks were always aware that there were two very distinct Louisvilles, one of which they were excluded from.
"Not Alms, But Opportunity"
Author: Nancy Joan WeissIn the Almost Promised Land
Author: Hasia R. DinerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801850653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Seeking the reasons behind Jewish altruism toward African Americans, Hasis Finer shows how-in the wake of the Leo Frank trial and lynching in Atlanta-Jews came to see that their relative prosperity wa sno protection against the same social forces that threatened blacks. Jewish leaders and organizations genuinely believed in the cause of black civil rights, Diner suggests, but they also used that cause as a way of advancing their own interests-launching a vicarious attack on the nation that they felt had not lived up to its own ideals of freedom and equality.