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The Depression Comes to the South Side: Protest and Politics in the Black Metropolis, 1930-1933

By Christopher Robert Reed

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0253356520, 9780253356529
LCC
F548.9.N4 R444 2011
Google Books ID
SOBAQ4HPf0AC
Open Library ID
OL25156502M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2866121 bytes)
Series
Blacks in the diaspora
Pages
205\205
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In the 1920s, the South Side was looked on as the new Black Metropolis, but by the turn of the decade that vision was already in decline—a victim of the Depression. In this timely book, Christopher Robert Reed explores early Depression-era politics on Chicago's South Side. The economic crisis caused diverse responses from groups in the black community, distinguished by their political ideologies and stated goals. Some favored government intervention, others reform of social services. Some found expression in mass street demonstrations, militant advocacy of expanded civil rights, or revolutionary calls for a complete overhaul of the capitalist economic system. Reed examines the complex interactions among these various groups as they played out within the community as it sought to find common ground to address the economic stresses that threatened to tear the Black Metropolis apart.

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