Christopher Robert Reed

The Depression Comes to the South Side

Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933

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In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline-a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused diverse responses from groups in the black community, distinguished by their political ideologies and stated goals. Some favored government intervention, others reform of social services. Some found expression in mass street demonstrations, militant advocacy of expanded civil rights, or revolutionary calls for a complete overhaul of the capitalist… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-253-00552-6
EAN: 9780253005526
Produktnummer: 20448446
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 770 KB
Abbildungen: 8 b&w illus.

Über den Autor

Christopher Robert Reed is Professor Emeritus of History at Roosevelt University in Chicago and author of The Emergence of the Black Metropolis, 1910-1933; Black Chicago's First Century, 1833-1900; All the World Is Here: The Black Presence at White City (IUP, 2000); and The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership (IUP, 1997).