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Knock at the Door of Opportunity Black Migration to Chicago, 1900-1919.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (410 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780809333349
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F548 .K563 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago's South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916-1918, effectively doubling Chicago's African American population. Those already residing in Chicago's black neighborhoods.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Jacket Flaps; Frontispiece; Title page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Fabric of Society; 2. Black Chicago and the Color Line; 3. The Structure of Society; 4. Housing along an Elastic Streetscape; 5. Religion and Churches; 6. Labor and Business; 7. Politics and Protest; 8. The Reuniting of a People: A Tale of Two Black Belts; 9. Employment and Political Contention; 10. Martial Ardor, the Great War, and the Race Riot of 1919; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author biography; Back Cover

Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago's South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916-1918, effectively doubling Chicago's African American population. Those already residing in Chicago's black neighborhoods.

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