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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455187803321

Autore

Reed Touré F

Titolo

Not alms but opportunity [[electronic resource] ] : the Urban League and the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 / / Touré F. Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2008

ISBN

1-4696-0570-8

0-8078-8854-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/07307470904

Soggetti

African Americans - New York (State) - New York - Social conditions - 20th century

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - Social conditions - 20th century

Social classes - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century

Social classes - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

African Americans - Social conditions - To 1964

African Americans - Economic conditions - 20th century

Electronic books.

New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950 -- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950.

Sommario/riassunto

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



many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. Reed traces th