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Not alms but opportunity : the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950
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- Creator
- Touré F. Reed
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
- ©2008
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807832233, 0807832235, 0807859028, 0807888540, 1469605708, 9781469605708, 9780807888544, 9780807859025
- OCLC
- ocn405087324, ocn212908709
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-244) and index.
- The ideological origins of the Urban League -- Community development and housing, 1910-1932 -- Vocational training, employment, and job placements, 1910-1932 -- Labor unions, social reorganization, and the acculturation of Black workers, 1910-1932 -- Vocational guidance and organized labor during the New Deal, 1933-1940 -- Employment from the March on Washington movement to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950 -- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950
Subjects
- National Urban League -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
- Social classes -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
- African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.