Title A New Deal for Bronzeville : housing, employment, & civil rights in Black Chicago, 1935-1955 / Lionel Kimble Jr

Published Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2015] ©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 200 pages) : illustrations Contents Black belts insult 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century Civil rights movements -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. African Americans African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- Social conditions Civil rights movements Race relations Social conditions SUBJECT Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations Subject Illinois -- Chicago Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780809334278 0809334275

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