Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The National Urban League Southern Regional Office
Author: Library of Congress. Manuscript DivisionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Victory at Home
Author: Charles D. ChamberlainPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820327220
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Victory at Home is at once an institutional history of the federal War Manpower Commission and a social history of the southern labor force within the commission's province. Charles D. Chamberlain explores how southern working families used America's rapid wartime industrialization and an expanded federal presence to gain unprecedented economic, social, and geographic mobility in the chronically poor region. Chamberlain looks at how war workers, black leaders, white southern elites, liberal New Dealers, nonsouthern industrialists, and others used and shaped the federal war mobilization effort to fill their own needs. He shows, for instance, how African American, Latino, and white laborers worked variously through churches, labor unions, federal agencies, the NAACP, and the Urban League, using a wide variety of strategies from union organizing and direct action protest to job shopping and migration. Throughout, Chamberlain is careful not to portray the southern wartime labor scene in monolithic terms. He discusses, for instance, conflicts between racial groups within labor unions and shortfalls between the War Manpower Commission's national directives and their local implementation. An important new work in southern economic and industrial history, Victory at Home also has implications for the prehistory of both the civil rights revolution and the massive resistance movement of the 1960s. As Chamberlain makes clear, African American workers used the coalition of unions, churches, and civil rights organizations built up during the war to challenge segregation and disenfranchisement in the postwar South.
Rural Development
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Subcommittee on Rural DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1380
Book Description
Directory for Reaching Minority and Women's Groups
Author: United States. Bureau of Apprenticeship and TrainingPublisher:
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Category : Minorities
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Black Exodus
Author: Alferdteen HarrisonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628467541
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
With essays by Blyden Jackson, Dernoral Davis, Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, Carole Marks, James R. Grossman, and William Cohen and Neil R. McMillen What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost not only a huge percentage of its inhabitants to northern cities like Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia but also its supply of cheap labor. Fleeing from racial injustice and poverty, southern blacks took their culture north with them and transformed northern urban centers with their churches, social institutions, and ways of life. In Black Exodus eight noted scholars consider the causes that stimulated the migration and examine the far-reaching results.
Project Independence: Atlanta, Georgia, Sept. 23-27, 1974
Author: Project Independence Blueprint
Author: United States. Federal Energy AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Energy policy
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
What is Project Independence? The sources and uses of energy in the United States have changed dramatically in the last several decades. As a result, in just one generation, we have shifted from a position of domestic energy abundance to a substantial and continually growing reliance on foreign energy sources. Project Independence is a wide-ranging program to evaluate this growing dependence on foreign sources of energy, and to develop positive programs to reduce our vulnerability to future oil cut-offs and price increases.
Transcript of Eighth Public Hearing, Atlanta, Georgia, September 23-27, 1974
Author: United States. Federal Energy AdministrationPublisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Examination of the War on Poverty
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and PovertyPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 1968
Book Description
Registry of Private Fair Housing Organizations/groups
Author: National Newspaper Publishers AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in housing
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description