05260nam 2200745 a 450 991081432190332120200520144314.01-282-53791-197866125379120-226-68450-410.7208/9780226684505(CKB)2550000000007470(EBL)485985(OCoLC)593240131(SSID)ssj0000342492(PQKBManifestationID)11243656(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342492(PQKBWorkID)10285685(PQKB)11015631(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121974(MiAaPQ)EBC485985(DE-B1597)523884(OCoLC)1135589602(DE-B1597)9780226684505(Au-PeEL)EBL485985(CaPaEBR)ebr10366811(CaONFJC)MIL253791(EXLCZ)99255000000000747020080116d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRobert Clifton Weaver and the American city[electronic resource] the life and times of an urban reformer /Wendell E. PritchettChicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (462 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-68448-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [357]-417) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Preparing the Talented Tenth. The Weaver Family and the Black Elite -- 2. Fighting for a Better Deal -- 3. A Liberal Experiment. Race and Housing in the New Deal -- 4. Creating a New Order. Black Politics in the New Deal Era -- 5. World War II and Black Labor -- 6. Chicago and the Science of Race Relations -- 7. Searching for a Place to Call Home -- 8. New York City and the Institutions of Liberal Reform -- 9. The First Cabinet Job -- 10. The Path to Power -- 11. The Kennedy Years. A Reluctant New Frontier -- 12. Fighting for Civil Rights from the Inside -- 13. The Great Society and the City -- 14. HUD, Robert Weaver, and the Ambiguities of Race -- 15. Power and Its Limitations -- 16. The Great Society, High and Low -- 17. An Elder Statesman in a Period of Turmoil -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Figure Credits -- IndexFrom his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy continues to affect American race relations and the cities in which they largely play out. Tracing Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, Wendell E. Pritchett illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period, from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control. Beyond these policy achievements, Weaver also founded racial liberalism, a new approach to race relations that propelled him through a series of high-level positions in public and private agencies working to promote racial cooperation in American cities. But Pritchett shows that despite Weaver's efforts to make race irrelevant, white and black Americans continued to call on him to mediate between the races-a position that grew increasingly untenable as Weaver remained caught between the white power structure to which he pledged his allegiance and the African Americans whose lives he devoted his career to improving. Cabinet officersUnited StatesBiographyAfrican AmericansBiographyUrban policyUnited StatesHistory20th centuryAfrican AmericansGovernment policyHistory20th centuryCabinet officersNew York (State)BiographyAfrican American college presidentsBiographycivil rights, domestic policy, government, robert clifton weaver, housing and urban development, hud, cabinet, congress, lyndon johnson, negro advisor, politics, political science, history, race, nonfiction, roosevelt, fdr, liberalism, new deal, rent control, affirmative action, black politicians, african american, integration, segregation, discrimination, poverty, minority, city, great society, kennedy, chicago, talented tenth.Cabinet officersAfrican AmericansUrban policyHistoryAfrican AmericansGovernment policyHistoryCabinet officersAfrican American college presidents352.2/93092BPritchett Wendell E1615323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814321903321Robert Clifton Weaver and the American city3945464UNINA