African Americans in the Furniture City
Subtitle: the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids
By: Randal Maurice Jelks.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780252030406; 9780252073472
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History.; Civil rights movements -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History.; African Americans -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Social conditions.; Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Race relations.; Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Social conditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Negro, North and South : racial stigma in nineteenth-century Grand Rapids; title: In colored circles : the shape of African American civil society; title: "Thirteen races and nationalities" : the politics of race relations in the age of Booker T. Washington; title: Making opportunity : new Negroes and the struggle against Jim Crow; title: "Southern Negroes flock to Michigan" : social welfare and northern migration; title: The making of the Brough Community Association : the limits of class and interracial cooperation; title: "Today's Negro and tomorrow's world" : African American protest and the politics of leadership; title: Conclusion : "Outstreched hand and clenched fist" : Black consciousness and the second ghetto.