Title Struggle for the street : social networks and the struggle for civil rights in Pittsburgh / Jessica D. Klanderud

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Justice, Power, and Politics Series Justice, power, and politics. Contents List of illustrations and maps -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Wylie Avenue: crossroads of the world, Hill District, 1918-1930 -- Chapter Two. Bedford Avenue: street reformers and social mothering, 1917-1940 -- Chapter Three. Deep Wylie: the struggle for working-class social world, 1930-1950 -- Chapter Four. Webster Avenue: blight, renewal, or Negro removal, 1945-1960 -- Chapter Five. Dinwiddie Street: street capitalists and policing of the hill, 1950-1960 Chapter Six. Centre Avenue: Freedom Corner and the modern Black freedom movement, 1945-1968 -- Chapter Seven. Crawford Street: street democracy, violence, and retreat from the streets,1965-1970 -- Epilogue: Whose streets? Our streets! -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index Summary "In Struggle for the Street, Jessica Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. By placing the street at the center of historical change over time, Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality"-- Provided by publisher Notes Description based upon print version of record Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed October 31, 2023) Subject Civil rights movements -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Civil rights -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History -- 20th century African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History -- 20th century African American neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Social conditions Civil rights movements African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans African American neighborhoods SUBJECT Hill District (Pittsburgh, Pa.) -- History -- 20th century Pittsburgh (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century Subject Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh -- Hill District Pennsylvania -- Pittsburgh Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1469673746 9781469673745

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