LEADER 03463nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910815104603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a979-88-9313-289-2 010 $a1-4696-0570-8 010 $a0-8078-8854-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764481 035 $a(EBL)454829 035 $a(OCoLC)405087324 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000212324 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11220817 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212324 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10137409 035 $a(PQKB)11582991 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244091 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28057 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL454829 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310784 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC454829 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764481 100 $a20080225d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNot alms but opportunity $ethe Urban League and the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 /$fToure F. Reed 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (273 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8078-5902-8 311 $a0-8078-3223-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aIlluminating 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 606 $aAfrican Americans$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$zIllinois$zChicago$xSocial conditions$y20th century 606 $aSocial classes$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSocial classes$zIllinois$zChicago$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$yTo 1964 606 $aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 607 $aChicago (Ill.)$xSocial conditions$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xEconomic conditions 676 $a305.896/07307470904 700 $aReed$b Toure F$01650400 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815104603321 996 $aNot alms but opportunity$93999759 997 $aUNINA