A New Deal for Bronzeville
Subtitle: Housing, Employment, & Civil Rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955
By: Lionel Kimble Jr
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780809334261; 9780809334278
Subjects: Race relations; Social conditions; Civil rights; African Americans; Civil rights movements; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-191) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression; title: Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago; title: Housing the soldiers of the home front; title: "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II; title: From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing; title: "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.