Title: Historical roots of the urban crisis : African Americans in the industrial city, 1900-1950 /
Authors: Taylor, Henry Louis.; Hill, Walter.
Publisher: Garland Pub.,
Year: 2000
Subjects: African Americans Social conditions; African Americans Economic conditions; City and town life United States History; Industries Social aspects United States History; Community development United States History; Urban policy United States History
Contents: A unity of opposites : the Black college-educated elite, Black workers, and the community development process / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Song-Ho Ha -- Creating the metropolis in Black and white : Black suburbanization and the planning movement in Cincinnati, 1900-1950 / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr. -- Municipal harmony : cultural pluralism, public recreation, and race relations / Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh -- From Auburn Avenue to Buttermilk Bottom : class and community dynamics among Atlanta's Blacks / Georgina Hickey -- Blacks in the suburban and rural fringe / Andrew Wiese -- African Americans in the U.S. economy : federal policy and the transformation of work, 1915-1945 / Liesl Miller Orenic and Joe W. Trotter -- The battle against wage slavery : the National Urban League, the NAACP, and the struggle over New Deal policies / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Vicky Dula, and Song-Ho Ha -- Building bricks without straw : Robert C. Weaver and Negro industrial employment, 1934-1944 / Sigmund Shipp -- Black workers, trade unions, and labor standards : the wartime FEPC / Eileen Boris -- Epilogue : African Americans and the dawning of the postindustrial era / Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Mark Naison.