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
Summary
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 citizenship
Analysis
Humaniora Historie
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-326) and index
Notes
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