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

by Sitkoff, Harvard

• ISBN13: 9780195367539
• ISBN10: 0195367537
• Edition: 30th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Now with a new prologue and updated bibliography, this classic edition of Harvard Sitkoff's A New Deal for Blacks is a comprehensive account of the emergence of civil rights as a national issue within the U.S. The New Deal years are a turning point in race relations trends. They constitute awatershed of developments whose outgrowth was a broad-based social movement aimed at bringing about a fuller participation of blacks in American society. This text covers a wide variety of factors influencing civil rights and race relations in this period. It describes political and top down influences but also spends time on ideas and culture and mass mobilization. The book provides an opportunity to talk about the different types of factors thatinfluence social change and the relationship between them. Finally, the scholarship is still accurate and solid and the book is well, written avoiding jargon.

Table of Contents

Preface

Preface to the first edition

""The Dusk of Dawn""

An Old Deal, A Raw Deal

An Old Deal, A Raw Deal

The Negro Vote

A Rift in the Coalition

The Red and the Black

Organized Labor and Civil Rights

Changing Ideas: Race and Racism

The Law of the Land

The Struggle

""Strange Fruit""

A Culmination and a Beginning

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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