Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920
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Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination. This is the first historical study of the ghetto made famous by the sociological classics of St. Clair Drake, E. Franklin Frazier, and others--by the novels of Richard Wright, and by countless blues songs. It was this ghetto that Martin Luther King, Jr., chose to focus on when he turned attention to the racial injustices of the North. Spear, by his objective treatment of the results of white racism, gives an effective, timely reminder of the serious urban problems that are the legacy of prejudice.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226768570
ISBN13:9780226768571
Release Date:January 1967
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:271 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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tragic racial drama
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
black chicago starts off w/ a 17year old negro boy who gets drowned and stoned by angry whites because he accidentally floated across the unmarked barrier that separated the white and negro sectors of the beach. this book talks about the boundaries regulating the behavior of different races being challenged in the city of Chicago in the years between 1890 and 1920. also how the changes affect the basic institutions of this city,including education, recreation, business, and politics, and etc. stories are so tragic and you will find out why in this book. you will be surprised by what happened. i liked this book and i think it is a great book to find out a real racial conflict.
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