Black politics in New Deal Atlanta /

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In 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of educated African Americans. However, Jim Crow's dictates meant they were almost entirely excluded from public life. Ferguson shows how Roosevelt's New Deal opened up oppportunities for black Atlantans struggling to acheive full ci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ferguson, Karen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002.
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
1900-1999
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Politics and government > 20th century.
African Americans > Georgia > Atlanta > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American social reformers > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
Elite (Social sciences) > Georgia > Atlanta > History > 20th century.
New Deal, 1933-1939 > Georgia > Atlanta.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Atlanta (Ga.) > Race relations.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The wheel within a wheel: black Atlanta and the reform elite
  • A road not taken: the radical response to the Great Depression
  • Carpetbaggers and scalawags: the new politics of the new deal
  • Lifting the taboo: the Black New Deal in Atlanta
  • Unwanted attention: Black workers and the New Deal
  • The new face of Black activism
  • A jungle world breeding jungle life: the white campaign for slum clearance and public housing
  • A laboratory for citizenship: the Black campaign for slum clearance and public housing
  • The inner wheel breaks out: wartime Atlanta and the urban league.

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