Crucibles of black empowerment [electronic resource] : Chicago's neighborhood politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington / Jeffrey Helgeson.
Helgeson, Jeffrey, author.
2014
F548.9.N4 H45 2014eb
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Title Crucibles of black empowerment [electronic resource] : Chicago's neighborhood politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington / Jeffrey Helgeson.
Author Helgeson, Jeffrey, author.
ISBN 9780226130729 electronic book
9780226130699 hardcover : cover
Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number F548.9.N4 H45 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196/073077311
Summary The term "community organizer" was deployed repeatedly against Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign as a way to paint him as an inexperienced politician unfit for the presidency. The implication was that the job of a community organizer wasn't a serious one, and that it certainly wasn't on the list of credentials needed for a presidential résumé. In reality, community organizers have played key roles in the political lives of American cities for decades, perhaps never more so than during the 1970s in Chicago, where African Americans laid the groundwork for further empowermen.
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Series Historical studies of urban America.
Available in Other Form Crucibles of black empowerment : Chicago's neighborhood politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington.
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List of Figures and Maps
Introduction
1. The Politics of Home in Hard Times
2. Community Development in an Age of Protest, 1935-40
3. "Will 'Our People' Be Any Better Off after This War?"
4. A Decent Place to Live: The Postwar Housing Shortage
5. Capitalism without Capital: Postwar Employment Activism
6. Sources of Black Nationalism from the 1950s to the 1970s
7. Harold Washington: Black Power and the Resilience of Liberalism
Postscript: The Obamas and Black Chicago's Long Liberal Tradition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index.

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