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Not alms but opportunity :

[Book]

the Urban League & the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 /

Touré F. Reed

Chapel Hill :

University of North Carolina Press,

[2008]

©2008

xviii, 254 pages :

illustrations ;

25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-244) and index

The ideological origins of the Urban League -- Community development and housing, 1910-1932 -- Vocational training, employment, and job placements, 1910-1932 -- Labor unions, social reorganization, and the acculturation of Black workers, 1910-1932 -- Vocational guidance and organized labor during the New Deal, 1933-1940 -- Employment from the March on Washington to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950 -- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950

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Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Touř Reed explores the ideology and policies of the National, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases pervading contemporaneous social reform movements, resulting in an emphasis on behavioral, rather than structural, remedies to the disadvantages faced by Afro-Americans. According to Reed, the League's reform endeavors from the migration era through World War II oscillated between projects to "adjust" or even "contain" unacculturated Afro-Americans and projects intended to enhance the status of the African American middle class. Reed's analysis complicates the mainstream account of how particular class concerns and ideological influences shaped the League's vision of group advancement as well as the consequences of its endeavors.--from publisher description

National Urban League-- History-- 20th century

African Americans-- Economic conditions-- 20th century

African Americans-- Illinois-- Chicago-- Social conditions-- 20th century

African Americans-- New York (State)-- New York-- Social conditions-- 20th century

African Americans-- Social conditions-- To 1964

Social classes-- Illinois-- Chicago-- History-- 20th century

Social classes-- New York (State)-- New York-- History-- 20th century

Chicago (Ill.), Social conditions, 20th century

New York (N.Y.), Social conditions, 20th century

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