A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 / Lionel Kimble Jr.
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TextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015]Copyright date: �2015Description: 1 online resource (217 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 9780809334278 (e-book)
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations
- 323.1196/073077311 23
- F548.9.N4 K55 2015
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing -- "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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