Crucibles of black empowerment
Subtitle: Chicago's neighborhood politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington
By: Jeffrey Helgeson
Series: Historical studies of urban America; Historical studies of urban America
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780226130699
Subjects: Politics and government; African Americans; Political activity
Description: In 1983, black Chicagoans elected Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor. In the process, they overthrew the white Democratic machine and its regime of 'plantation politics'. This book details the long-term development of black Chicago's political culture, beginning in the 1930s, that both made a political insurrection possible in the right context, and informed Mayor Washington's liberal, interracial, democratic vision of urban governance.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.