To Ask for an Equal Chance : African Americans in the Great Depression.
Title:
To Ask for an Equal Chance : African Americans in the Great Depression.
Author:
Greenberg, Cheryl Lynn.
ISBN:
9781442200517
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 pages)
Series:
The African American History Series
Contents:
Contents -- Chronology -- Chapter 01. No Strangers to Hardship: Black Life before the Crash -- Chapter 02. Last Hired, First Fired: Working through the Great Depression -- Chapter 03. Of New Deals and Raw Deals -- Chapter 04. "Let Us Build": Political Organizing in the Depression Era -- Chapter 05. Weary Blues: Black Communities and Black Culture -- Epilogue: "Should I Sacrifice to Live 'Half American'?" -- Documents -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
The Great Depression hit Americans hard, but none harder than African Americans and the working poor. This brief, engaging book covers the range of African Americans' experiences during the 1930s. Cheryl Lynn Greenberg explores employment issues, the New Deal's effect on African Americans, family and community changes, and how the coming of war affected the population. The book straddles the particular-with examinations of specific communities and experiences-and the general-with explorations of the broader effects of racism, discrimination, family, class, and political organizing.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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