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Author:

Reed, Touré F.

Title:

Not alms but opportunity : the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 / Touré F. Reed.

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xviii, 254 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

National Urban League--History--20th century.
African Americans--New York--New York--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--Chicago--Chicago--Social conditions--20th century.
Social classes--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Social classes--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
New York (N.Y.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964.
African Americans--Economic conditions--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index.

Contents:

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 movement to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950 -- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950.

ISBN:

0807859028 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807859025 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807832235 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807832233 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2008007810

Locations:

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

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)