Title: Black metropolis ;
Authors: Drake, St. Clair; Cayton, Horace R.; Ralph Ellison Collection (Library of Congress)
Date: 1945
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and company,
Physical description: xxxiv, 809 pages : illustrations (including maps), diagrams ; 22 cm
Language: English
LC classification: F
Abstract: This book is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers. It offers a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century.
Contents: Author's Acknowledgment -- Introduction by Richard Wright -- Introduction to the Torchbook Edition by Everett C. Hughes -- Introduction: Midwest Metropolis -- Part 1: 1. Flight to Freedom -- 2. Land of Promise -- 3. The Great Migration -- 4. Race Riot and Aftermath -- 5. Between Two Wars -- Part 2: 6. Along the Color-Line -- 7. Crossing the Color-Line -- 8. The Black Ghetto -- 9. The Job Ceiling -- 10. The Shifting Line of Color -- 11. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Breaking the Job Ceiling -- 12. Democracy and Economic Necessity: Black Workers and the New Unions -- 13. Democracy and Political Expendiency -- Appendix: Black Metropolis 1961 -- Authors' Preface -- Part 3: 14. Bronzeville -- 15. The Power of Press and Pulpit -- 16. Negro Business: Myth and Fact -- 17. Business Under a Cloud -- 18. The Measure of the Man -- 19. Style of Living- Upper Class -- 20. Lower Class: Sex and Family -- 21. The World of the Lower Class -- 22. The Middle-class Way of Life -- 23. Advancing the Race -- Part 4: 24. Of Things to Come -- Bronzeville 1961 -- A Methodological Note by W. Lloyd Warner -- Notes and Documentation -- A List of Selected Books Dealing with the American Negro -- Suggestions for Collateral Reading, 1962 -- Index.
Notes: "First edition."
Subject headings (LCSH): African Americans--Economic conditions.; African Americans--Illinois--Chicago.; African Americans--Moral and social conditions.; African Americans--Social conditions.