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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815251403321

Autore

Kimble Lionel, Jr., <1973->

Titolo

A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 / / Lionel Kimble Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Carbondale : , : Southern Illinois University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8093-3427-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

323.1196/073077311

Soggetti

African Americans - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

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

African Americans - Civil rights - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Civil rights movements - Illinois - Chicago - History - 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) History 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century

Chicago (Ill.) Race relations

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 (pages 181-191) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing -- "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.