The National Urban League 1910-1940
Author : N. J. Weiiss
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : N. J. Weiiss
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1977
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Author : Nancy Joan Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
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Monograph on the historical impact of the national level urban area league, a Black interest group, on race relations in the USA from 1910 to 1940 - examines the league's efforts to open employment opportunities for blacks and to ease their social adjustment to urban life following rural migration. Annotated bibliography pp. 311 to 315, references and statistical tables.
Author : Nancy Joan Weiss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 10,29 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Political Science
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Monograph on the historical impact of the national level urban area league, a Black interest group, on race relations in the USA from 1910 to 1940 - examines the league's efforts to open employment opportunities for blacks and to ease their social adjustment to urban life following rural migration. Annotated bibliography pp. 311 to 315, references and statistical tables.
Author : Touré F. Reed
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807888540
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. Reed traces the Urban League's ideology to the famed Chicago School of Sociology. The Chicago School offered Leaguers powerful scientific tools with which to foil the thrust of eugenics. However, Reed argues, concepts such as ethnic cycle and social disorganization and reorganization led the League to embrace behavioral models of uplift that reflected a deep circumspection about poor Afro-Americans and fostered a preoccupation with the needs of middle-class blacks. According to Reed, the League's reform endeavors from the migration era through World War II oscillated between projects to "adjust" or even "contain" unacculturated Afro-Americans and projects intended to enhance the status of the Afro-American middle class. Reed's analysis complicates the mainstream account of how particular class concerns and ideological influences shaped the League's vision of group advancement as well as the consequences of its endeavors.
Author : Alain Locke
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Literary Collections
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Author : Francille Rusan Wilson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813925509
The careers Wilson considers include many of the most brilliant of their eras. She sheds new light on the interplay of the professional and political commitments of W.E.B. Du Bois, Abram L. Harris, Robert C. Weaver, Carter G. Woodson, George E. Haynes, Charles H. Wesley, R.R. Wright Jr. - a succession of scholars bent on replacing myths and stereotypes regarding black labor with rigorous research and analysis.
Author : Nancy Joan Weiss
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File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Joe William TrotterJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,52 MB
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0813179947
During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant social and cultural scenes inspired dreams of prosperity and a new start, but this urban haven was not free of discrimination and despair. In the face of injustice, activists formed the Urban League of Pittsburgh (ULP) in 1918 to combat prejudice and support the city's growing African American population. In this broad-ranging history, Joe William Trotter Jr. uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social programs' deep class and gender limitations. Surveying issues including housing, healthcare, and occupational mobility, Trotter underscores how the ULP—often in concert with the Urban League's national headquarters—bridged social divisions to improve the lives of black citizens of every class. He also sheds new light on the branch's nonviolent direct-action campaigns and places these powerful grassroots operations within the context of the modern Black Freedom Movement. The impact of the National Urban League is a hotly debated topic in African American social and political history. Trotter's study provides valuable new insights that demonstrate how the organization has relieved massive suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century.
Author : Arvarh E. Strickland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0313065004
Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience. With the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960s came an increasing demand for the study and teaching of African American history followed by the publication of increasing numbers of titles on African American life and history. This volume provides a comprehensive bibliographical and analytical guide to this growing body of literature as well as an analysis of how the study of African Americans has changed.
Author : Gerald D. Jaynes
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 20,67 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761927646
An encyclopedic reference of African American history and culture.