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Canaan, dim and far : black reformers and the pursuit of citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945 / Adam Lee Cilli.

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ISBN:
  • 9780820358895
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  • F159 .C363 2021
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Contents:
"A healthy and prosperous race" : the Urban League of Pittsburgh and the struggle for jobs, housing, and health, 1915-1929 -- "The weapons of legal defense" : the Pittsburgh NAACP and the criminal justice system, 1924-1934 -- "The ranks of this new army" : the Pittsburgh courier and the fight for political power and national recognition in the early Depression, 1929-1933 -- "The taken-for-granted rights of American citizenship" : reformers, civil equality, and educational justice, 1934-1937 -- "This great crusade" : reformers and the industrial labor movement, 1933-1939 -- "The freedoms we cherish" : the New Deal, World War II, and the Double V campaign, 1933-1945 -- Conclusion: The legacy of the black reform era.
Subject: "Canaan Dim and Far argues for the importance of Pittsburgh as a case study in analyzing African American civil rights and political advocacy in an urban setting, asthecity was situated well between the encroachment of Jim Crow initiatives of the 1910s and the end of World War II. In that respect, it is a study of the "long" Civil Rights Movement before the flashpoint of 1954 and outside of the traditional South. In it, author Adam Cilli shines a light on neglected elements of middle-class black activism in the decades preceding the classic Civil Rights Movement. The book features a revolving cast of social workers, journalists, scholars, and activists in Pittsburgh committed to an expansive vision of citizenship that included access to decent healthcare, adequate housing, and economic opportunity along with political and social dignity. While these reformers developed community programs to salve the physical wounds of inequality and "adjust" migrants to the urban North, they appropriated mainstream discourses to change the system from within. In doing so, they challenged white America to face its contradictions and live up to its democratic ideals"--
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"This was the ugliest, deadest town I ever seen in my life" : migrants and reformers in the Steel City, 1915-1929 -- "A healthy and prosperous race" : the Urban League of Pittsburgh and the struggle for jobs, housing, and health, 1915-1929 -- "The weapons of legal defense" : the Pittsburgh NAACP and the criminal justice system, 1924-1934 -- "The ranks of this new army" : the Pittsburgh courier and the fight for political power and national recognition in the early Depression, 1929-1933 -- "The taken-for-granted rights of American citizenship" : reformers, civil equality, and educational justice, 1934-1937 -- "This great crusade" : reformers and the industrial labor movement, 1933-1939 -- "The freedoms we cherish" : the New Deal, World War II, and the Double V campaign, 1933-1945 -- Conclusion: The legacy of the black reform era.

"Canaan Dim and Far argues for the importance of Pittsburgh as a case study in analyzing African American civil rights and political advocacy in an urban setting, asthecity was situated well between the encroachment of Jim Crow initiatives of the 1910s and the end of World War II. In that respect, it is a study of the "long" Civil Rights Movement before the flashpoint of 1954 and outside of the traditional South. In it, author Adam Cilli shines a light on neglected elements of middle-class black activism in the decades preceding the classic Civil Rights Movement. The book features a revolving cast of social workers, journalists, scholars, and activists in Pittsburgh committed to an expansive vision of citizenship that included access to decent healthcare, adequate housing, and economic opportunity along with political and social dignity. While these reformers developed community programs to salve the physical wounds of inequality and "adjust" migrants to the urban North, they appropriated mainstream discourses to change the system from within. In doing so, they challenged white America to face its contradictions and live up to its democratic ideals"--

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