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1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 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. |
| Summary |
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touré Reed explores the ideology and policies of the Urban League's activities in New York and Chicago 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 power. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
National Urban League -- History -- 20th century.
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National Urban League. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Social conditions. |
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African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Illinois -- Chicago. |
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Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
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Social classes. |
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Social classes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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National Book Committee. |
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1964 |
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African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reed, Touré F. Not alms but opportunity. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2008 9780807832233 0807832235 (DLC) 2008007810 (OCoLC)212908709 |
| ISBN |
9780807888544 (electronic book) |
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0807888540 (electronic book) |
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9781469605708 (electronic book) |
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1469605708 (electronic book) |
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9780807832233 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807859025 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0807832235 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807859028 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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