03470nam 2200709Ia 450 991045518780332120200520144314.01-4696-0570-80-8078-8854-0(CKB)1000000000764481(EBL)454829(OCoLC)405087324(SSID)ssj0000212324(PQKBManifestationID)11220817(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212324(PQKBWorkID)10137409(PQKB)11582991(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244091(MiAaPQ)EBC454829(MdBmJHUP)muse28057(Au-PeEL)EBL454829(CaPaEBR)ebr10310784(EXLCZ)99100000000076448120080225d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNot alms but opportunity[electronic resource] the Urban League and the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 /Touré F. ReedChapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20081 online resource (273 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5902-8 0-8078-3223-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 thAfrican AmericansNew York (State)New YorkSocial conditions20th centuryAfrican AmericansIllinoisChicagoSocial conditions20th centurySocial classesNew York (State)New YorkHistory20th centurySocial classesIllinoisChicagoHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsTo 1964African AmericansEconomic conditions20th centuryNew York (N.Y.)Social conditions20th centuryChicago (Ill.)Social conditions20th centuryElectronic books.African AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsSocial classesHistorySocial classesHistoryAfrican AmericansSocial conditionsAfrican AmericansEconomic conditions305.896/07307470904Reed Touré F1032754MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455187803321Not alms but opportunity2450789UNINA