The Depression comes to the South Side, protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933, Christopher Robert Reed
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The Depression comes to the South Side, protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933, Christopher Robert Reed
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eng
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non fiction
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The Depression comes to the South Side
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Christopher Robert Reed
Series statement
Blacks in the diaspora
Sub title
protest and politics in the Black metropolis, 1930-1933
Summary
In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline-a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused diverse responses from groups in the black community, distinguished by their political ideologies and stated goals. Some favored government intervention, others reform of social services. Some found expression in mass street demonstrations, militant advocacy of expanded civil rights, or revolutionary calls for a complete overhaul of the capitalist economic system. Reed examines the complex interactions among these various groups as they played out within the community as it sought to find common ground to address the economic stresses that threatened to tear the Black Metropolis apart
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adult
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- Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans + Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Political science
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago
- South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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- Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans + Civil rights -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century
- Electronic books
- African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Political science
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Social aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago
- South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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- Author1