New Deal for Blacks The Emergence of Civil Rights As a National Issue: the Depression Decade

Name: New Deal for Blacks The Emergence of Civil Rights As a National Issue: the Depression Decade
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ISBN: 9780195367539

ISBN-10: 0195367537

ISBN-13: 9780195367539

Edition: 2008

Authors: Harvard Sitkoff

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A watershed decade in U.S. history, the 1930s witnessed a struggle on various fronts--fought by many different Americans--that raised the country's awareness of the inequalities and injustices suffered by African Americans. Featuring a new preface and an expansive, up-to-date bibliography, this 30th Anniversary Edition of Harvard Sitkoff's A New Deal for Blacks presents a comprehensive account of the changes--substantive and symbolic--that eventually led to the emergence of civil rights as a national issue and helped make a successful quest for racial justice possible. It emphasizes a wide variety of individuals and organizations that contributed to the coming-of-age of civil rights, and…

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List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 8.10" wide x 5.40" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


Preface to the first edition



""The Dusk of Dawn""



An Old Deal, A Raw Deal



An Old Deal, A Raw Deal



The Negro Vote



A Rift in the Coalition



The Red and the Black



Organized Labor and Civil Rights



Changing Ideas: Race and Racism



The Law of the Land



The Struggle



""Strange Fruit""



A Culmination and a Beginning



Conclusion


Notes


Index