Title Black San Francisco : the struggle for racial equality in the West, 1900-1954 / Albert S. Broussard

Published Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1993] ©1993

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Description 1 online resource (x, 323 pages) : map Series ACLS Humanities E-book ACLS Humanities E-Book Contents The growth and development of San Francisco's Black community, 1900-1930 -- Employment and enterprise, 1900-1930 -- Class, status, and social life -- Protest organizations, 1915-1930 -- Politics, protest, and race relations, 1920-1940 -- The worst of times: Blacks during the Great Depression and the New Deal, 1930-1940 -- The growth of Black San Francisco, 1940-1945 -- World War II, fair employment, discrimination, and Black opportunity -- Wartime tensions and the struggle for housing -- World War II and the new Black leadership -- The growth and flowering of interracial organizations -- Postwar employment: gains and losses -- The maturation of Black San Francisco: housing, autonomy, and politics Summary When it came to racial equality in the early twentieth century, Albert S. Broussard argues, the liberal, progressive image of San Francisco was largely a facade. In this book, he challenges the rhetoric of progress and opportunity with evidence of the reality of inequality and shows how black San Franciscans struggled for equality in the same manner as their counterparts in the Midwest and East. Understanding the texture of the racial caste system in the city prior to 1954, he contends, is critical to understanding why blacks made so little progress in employment, housing, and politics despite the absence of segregation laws. Reconstructing the plight of San Francisco's black citizens, Broussard reveals a population that, despite its small size before 1940, did not accept second-class citizenship passively yet remained nonviolent into the 1960s. He also shows how World War II and the defense industry brought thousands of southern black migrants to the bay area. Ultimately, he demonstrates, these newcomers and native black residents formed coalitions with white liberals to attack racial inequality more vigorously and successfully than at any previous time in San Francisco's history Analysis African Americans History 20th century California San Francisco Geschichte 1900-1954 San Francisco (Calif.) Race relations Notes Based on the thesis at Duke University Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-315) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Based on the thesis at Duke University All rights reserved Print version record digitized 2017 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- History -- 20th century African Americans Race relations Schwarze Rassenongelijkheid. Zwarten. Geschichte (1950-1954) Geschichte 1900-1954. SUBJECT San Francisco (Calif.) -- Race relations Subject California -- San Francisco San Francisco, Calif. Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book

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