LEADER 05260nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910781067103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-53791-1 010 $a9786612537912 010 $a0-226-68450-4 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226684505 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007470 035 $a(EBL)485985 035 $a(OCoLC)593240131 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342492 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11243656 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342492 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10285685 035 $a(PQKB)11015631 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000121974 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485985 035 $a(DE-B1597)523884 035 $a(OCoLC)1135589602 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226684505 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL485985 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10366811 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL253791 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007470 100 $a20080116d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRobert Clifton Weaver and the American city$b[electronic resource] $ethe life and times of an urban reformer /$fWendell E. Pritchett 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (462 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-68448-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [357]-417) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Preparing the Talented Tenth. The Weaver Family and the Black Elite -- $t2. Fighting for a Better Deal -- $t3. A Liberal Experiment. Race and Housing in the New Deal -- $t4. Creating a New Order. Black Politics in the New Deal Era -- $t5. World War II and Black Labor -- $t6. Chicago and the Science of Race Relations -- $t7. Searching for a Place to Call Home -- $t8. New York City and the Institutions of Liberal Reform -- $t9. The First Cabinet Job -- $t10. The Path to Power -- $t11. The Kennedy Years. A Reluctant New Frontier -- $t12. Fighting for Civil Rights from the Inside -- $t13. The Great Society and the City -- $t14. HUD, Robert Weaver, and the Ambiguities of Race -- $t15. Power and Its Limitations -- $t16. The Great Society, High and Low -- $t17. An Elder Statesman in a Period of Turmoil -- $tConclusion -- $tAbbreviations Used in Notes -- $tNotes -- $tFigure Credits -- $tIndex 330 $aFrom 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. 606 $aCabinet officers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAfrican Americans$vBiography 606 $aUrban policy$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xGovernment policy$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCabinet officers$zNew York (State)$vBiography 606 $aAfrican American college presidents$vBiography 610 $acivil rights, domestic policy, government, robert clifton weaver, housing and urban development, hud, cabinet, congress, lyndon johnson, negro advisor, politics, political science, history, race, nonfiction, roosevelt, fdr, liberalism, new deal, rent control, affirmative action, black politicians, african american, integration, segregation, discrimination, poverty, minority, city, great society, kennedy, chicago, talented tenth. 615 0$aCabinet officers 615 0$aAfrican Americans 615 0$aUrban policy$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xGovernment policy$xHistory 615 0$aCabinet officers 615 0$aAfrican American college presidents 676 $a352.2/93092 676 $aB 700 $aPritchett$b Wendell E$01525839 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781067103321 996 $aRobert Clifton Weaver and the American city$93767460 997 $aUNINA