Search Results - "War"
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A new deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in black Chicago, 1935-1955 /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…"Black belts are an insult to us": equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken: equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- "The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War": fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes: struggles for postwar housing -- "Picket lines were the front lines for democracy": Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.…”
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Black Chicago's first century
Published 2005An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Chicago's new Negroes modernity, the great migration, & Black urban life /
Published 2007Table of Contents: “…: consumer culture and intellectual life reconsidered -- Mapping the Black metropolis: a cultural geography of the stroll -- Making do: beauty, enterprise, and the "makeover" of race womanhood -- Theaters of war: spectacles, amusements, and the emergence of urban film culture -- The birth of two nations: White fears, Black jeers, and the rise of a "race film" consciousness -- Sacred tastes: the migrant aesthetics and authority of gospel music -- The sporting life: recreation, self-reliance, and competing visions of race manhood -- Epilogue. …”
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