A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression Decade / Edition 1

by Harvard Sitkoff

Overview

A watershed decade in U.S. history, the 1930s witnessed a struggle on various fronts—fought by many different Americans—that raised the country's awareness of the inequalities and injustices suffered by African Americans.
Featuring a new preface and an expansive, up-to-date bibliography, this 30th Anniversary Edition of Harvard Sitkoff's A New Deal for Blacks presents a comprehensive account of the changes—substantive and symbolic—that eventually led to the emergence of civil rights as a national issue and helped make a successful quest for racial justice possible. It emphasizes a wide variety of individuals and organizations that contributed to the coming-of-age of civil rights, and highlights the role of New Dealers, organized labor, the Left, Southern women opposed to lynching, biological and social scientists, black lawyers, and, especially, African American organizations that planted the seeds of racial progress.
This unique text is an ideal resource for undergraduate courses in African American history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195367539
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/31/2008
Edition description:	Classic Edition
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	455,050
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

PrefacePreface to the first edition1. "The Dusk of Dawn"2. An Old Deal, A Raw Deal3. The Start of a New Deal4. The Negro Vote5. A Rift in the Coalition6. The Red and the Black7. Organized Labor and Civil Rights8. Changing Ideas: Race and Racism9. The Law of the Land10. The Struggle11. "Strange Fruit"12. A Culmination and a Beginning13. ConclusionNotesIndex