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African Americans in the Furniture City : : the Struggle for Civil Rights in Grand Rapids

Jelks, Randal Maurice, 1956- Book - 2006 305.896 Je, Black Studies 305.896 Je 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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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 and clenched fist" : Black consciousness and the second ghetto.

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PUBLISHED
Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 217 p.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780252073472

SUBJECTS
African Americans -- History. -- Grand Rapids
Civil rights movements -- Grand Rapids -- History.
African Americans -- Grand Rapids -- Social conditions.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Race relations.
Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Social conditions.