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Title:

Historical roots of the urban crisis : African Americans in the industrial city, 1900-1950 / Henry Louis Taylor Jr. and Walter Hill, editors.

Publisher:

Garland Pub.,

Copyright Date:

2000

Description:

xxii, 297 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.
City and town life--United States--History--20th century.
Industries--History--United States--History--20th century.
Community development--United States--History--20th century.
Urban policy--United States--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Taylor, Henry Louis.
Hill, Walter,

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

A unity of opposites : the Black college-educated elite, Black workers, and the community development process / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Song-Ho Ha -- Creating the metropolis in Black and white : Black suburbanization and the planning movement in Cincinnati, 1900-1950 / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. -- Municipal harmony : cultural pluralism, public recreation, and race relations / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh -- From Auburn Avenue to Buttermilk Bottom : class and community dynamics among Atlanta's Blacks / Georgina Hickey -- Blacks in the suburban and rural fringe / Andrew Wiese -- African Americans in the U.S. economy : federal policy and the transformation of work, 1915-1945 / Liesl Miller Orenic and Joe W. Trotter -- The battle against wage slavery : the National Urban League, the NAACP, and the struggle over New Deal policies / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Vicky Dula, and Song-Ho Ha -- Building bricks without straw : Robert C. Weaver and Negro industrial employment, 1934-1944 / Sigmund Shipp -- Black workers, trade unions, and labor standards : the wartime FEPC / Eileen Boris -- Epilogue : African Americans and the dawning of the postindustrial era / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Mark Naison.

Series:

Crosscurrents in African American history ; v. 7
Garland reference library of social sciences ; vol. 1148

ISBN:

9780815327493 (alk. paper)
0815327498 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41944563
(OCoLC)45338147

LCCN:

99034344

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)