Author : Andrew Edmund Kersten
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252025631
In this examination of the FEPC's work, focusing on the pivotal Midwest, Andrew Edmund Kersten shows how this tiny government agency influenced the course of civil rights reform and moved the United States closer to a national fair employment policy.".
Author : Guian A. McKee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 17,71 MB
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226560147
Contesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rather than the national, level. With a focus on Philadelphia, this volume illuminates the central role of these local political and policy struggles in shaping the fortunes of city and citizen alike. In the process, it tells the remarkable story of how Philadelphia’s policymakers and community activists energetically worked to challenge deindustrialization through an innovative series of job retention initiatives, training programs, inner-city business development projects, and early affirmative action programs. Without ignoring the failure of Philadelphians to combat institutionalized racism, Guian McKee's account of their surprising success draws a portrait of American liberalism that evinces a potency not usually associated with the postwar era. Ultimately interpreting economic decline as an arena for intervention rather than a historical inevitability, The Problem of Jobs serves as a timely reminder of policy’s potential to combat injustice.
Author : G. Shenk
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403961778
During World War I the U.S. demanded that all able-bodied men work or fight. White men who were husbands and fathers, owned property or worked at approved jobs had the benefits of citizenship without fighting. Others were often barred from achieving these benefits. This book tells the stories of those affected by the Selective Service System.
Author : Joseph William Trotter Jr.
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,22 MB
Release : 2010-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0822977559
African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s, Pittsburgh has been a force for change in American race and class relations. Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II. It examines the origins and significance of the second Great Migration, the persistence of Jim Crow into the postwar years, the second ghetto, the contemporary urban crisis, the civil rights and Black Power movements, and the Million Man and Million Woman marches, among other topics. In recreating this period, Trotter and Day draw not only from newspaper articles and other primary and secondary sources, but also from oral histories. These include interviews with African Americans who lived in Pittsburgh during the postwar era, which reveal firsthand accounts of what life was truly like during this transformative epoch. Race and Renaissance illuminates how Pittsburgh's African Americans arrived at their present moment in history. It also links movements for change to larger global issues: civil rights with the Vietnam War; affirmative action with the movement against South African apartheid. As such, the study draws on both sociology and urban studies to deepen our understanding of the lives of urban blacks.
Author : Eric Arnesen
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Contains eleven essays that address issues faced by African-American workers since the late-nineteenth century, such as economic insecurity, the rise and fall of NAACP, and the civil rights movement.
Author : Sylvia Bell White
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 41,22 MB
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299294331
Raised with twelve brothers in a part of the segregated South that provided no school for African American children, Sylvia Bell White went North as a teenager, dreaming of a nursing career, but in Milwaukee she and her brothers found only racial discrimination, and she had to persevere through racial rebuffs to find work. When a Milwaukee police officer killed her younger brother in 1958, the Bell family suspected a racial murder but could do nothing to prove it?until twenty years later, when one of the officers involved in the incident unexpectedly came forward. Sylvia was the driving force behind the family's four-year quest for justice through a civil rights lawsuit.
Author : William P. Jones
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0393082857
A history professor describes the impact and history of the opening speech made during the March on Washington by the trade unionist Philip Randolph, whose vision and fight for equal economic and social citizenship began in 1941.
Author : Andrew E. Kersten
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2001-09-30
Category : History
ISBN :
This study focuses on the state's impact on American society from the Civil War to the present. For the past several decades historians have tended to divide themselves into increasingly distinct historical perspectives. This anthology seeks to reverse that trend by linking the viewpoints of political and social historians to interpret the growth of the state and society in the United States since 1865, an era during which the state's role has been expanded and redefined in a diverse and rapidly modernizing America. This technique challenges historians to think more broadly about the interactions between the state and society. Arguing that the close examination of political frameworks offers significant insights into facets of social history, these chapters seek to connect social and political history through a common thread of human experience. Pieces are grouped thematically and chronologically to illustrate how the state's role in society has developed over time. The first six examine the state's influence on, and manipulation by, social groups, particularly women, Native Americans, labor, and the military. The final three demonstrate the impact of political and social thought on the relationship between the state and society.
Author : La-Temus Marshall
Publisher : Outskirts Press, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781932672428
After decades and decades of trying to unify the country across color lines, two politians along with some of their racist corporate friends hatched a plot to bring a national vote to divide the United States into separate state hood countries so that every race of people can now have their own country to be among their own people. When the day of division came, things went smooth as expected. Little did we know that not only were we being monitored by foes, but after capturing two enemy soldiers while out on patrol during the race war, a black recon team captain interagated the two and found out that the mission by the two powerful countries was to invade, occupy, and place into slavery all Americans into concentration camps to be used as labor. As the plot was discovered, the captain contacted each country's central command, and after reveiling the plot to the leaders, all races had no choice but to come back together as one America to defeat this formidable force, and to prove once and for all that"United We Stan, Divided We Fall."
Author : Richard Delgado
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814721036
In The Washington Post, Julius Lester praised Richard Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race as free of cant and ideology. . . . an excellent starting place for the national discussion about race we so desperately need. The New York Times has hailed Delgado as a pioneer in the study of race and law, and the Los Angeles Times has compared his storytelling style to Plato's Dialogues. In The Coming Race War?, Delgado turns his attention to the American racial landscape in the wake of the mid-term elections in 1994. Our political and racial topography has been radically altered. Affirmative action is being rolled back, immigrants continue to be targeted as the source of economic woes, and race is increasingly downplayed as a source of the nation's problems. Legal obstacles to racial equality have long been removed, we are told, so what's the problem? And yet, the plight of the urban poor grows worse. The number of young black men in prison continues to exceed those in college. Informal racial privilege remains entrenched and systemic. Where, asks Delgado in this new volume, will this lead? Enlisting his fictional counterpart, Rodrigo Crenshaw, to untangle the complexities of America's racial future, Delgado explores merit and affirmative action; the nature of empathy and, more commonly, false empathy; and the limitations of legal change. Warning of the dangers of depriving the underprivileged of all hope and opportunity, Delgado gives us a dark future in which an indignant white America casts aside, once and for all, the spirit of the civil rights movement, with disastrous results.
