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African Americans in the Furniture City : the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids
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African Americans in the Furniture City : the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids / Randal Maurice Jelks.
ISBN
0252030400 (cloth : alk. paper)
0252073479 (paper : alk. paper)
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2006.
Physical Description
xvii, 217 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 05, 2006
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.
Contents
"The Negro, North and South" : racial stigma in nineteenth-century Grand Rapids
"In colored circles" : the shape of African American civil society
"Thirteen races and nationalities" : the politics of race relations in the age of Booker T. Washington
Making opportunity : new Negroes and the struggle against Jim Crow
"Southern Negroes flock to Michigan" : social welfare and northern migration
The making of the Brough Community Association : the limits of class and interracial cooperation
"Today's Negro and tomorrow's world" : African American protest and the politics of leadership
Conclusion : "Outstreched hand into a clenched fist".
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