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" The rise of Chicago's Black metropolis, 1920-1929 / "
Christopher Robert Reed.
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BL
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876848
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Reed, Christopher Robert.
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The rise of Chicago's Black metropolis, 1920-1929 /\ Christopher Robert Reed.
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| Publication Statement
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Urbana :: University of Illinois Press,, ©2011.
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The new Black studies series
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viii, 271 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm.
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0252036239
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: 0252080106
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: 9780252036231
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: 9780252080104
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9780252093173
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Demography and ethos -- "The whirl of life" : the social structure -- The golden decade of Black business -- Labor : both fat and lean years -- The struggle for control over Black politics and protest -- Transformed religion and a proliferation of churches -- Cultural and aesthetic expressions.
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During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." The author describes the rise of African Americans in Chicago's political economy, bringing to life the fleeting vibrancy of this dynamic period of racial consciousness and solidarity. He shows how African Americans rapidly transformed Chicago and achieved political and economic recognition by building on the population growth after the Great Migration from the South, the entry of a significant working class into the city's industrial work force, and the proliferation of black churches. Mapping out the labor issues and struggle for control of black politics and business, he gives a view of the entrepreneurial efforts of black migrants, reassessing previous accounts such as St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton's 1945 study Black Metropolis.
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African Americans-- Illinois-- Chicago-- History-- 20th century.
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African Americans.
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Chicago (Ill.), History, 20th century.
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Illinois, Chicago.
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305.896/073077311
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F548.9.N4R445 2011
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