A New Deal for Blacks The Emergence of Civil Rights As a National Issue: The Depression Decade

by Sitkoff, Harvard

• ISBN13: 9780195028935
• ISBN10: 0195028937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1981-02-05
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Traces the emergence of civil rights as a national concern to the depression decade and looks at the philosophies, individuals, institutions, and social conditions that fostered the move against racial injustice

Table of Contents

``The Dusk of Dawn''	3	(31)
An Old Deal, A Raw Deal	34	(24)
The Start of a New Deal	58	(26)
The Negro Vote	84	(18)
A Rift in the Coalition	102	(37)
The Red and the Black	139	(30)
Organized Labor and Civil Rights	169	(21)
Changing Ideas: Race and Racism	190	(26)
The Law of the Land	216	(28)
The Struggle	244	(24)
``Strange Fruit''	268	(30)
A Culmination and a Beginning	298	(28)
Conclusion	326	(11)
Notes	337	(50)
Index	387