Crucibles of black empowerment : Chicago's neighborhood politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington /

Crucibles of black empowerment : Chicago's neighborhood politics from the New Deal to Harold Washington /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Helgeson, Jeffrey, author.
Imprint:	Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 378 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Language:	English
Series:	Historical studies of urban America ; 109 Historical studies of urban America ; 109.
Subject:	African Americans -- Political activity -- Illinois -- Chicago. Politics and government. Chicago (Ill.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Illinois -- Chicago.
Format:	E-Resource Map Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230716

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ISBN:	9780226130729 022613072X 9780226130699 022613069X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	In 1983, black Chicagoans elected Harold Washington as the city's first black mayor. In the process, they overthrew the white Democratic machine and its regime of 'plantation politics'. This book details the long-term development of black Chicago's political culture, beginning in the 1930s, that both made a political insurrection possible in the right context, and informed Mayor Washington's liberal, interracial, democratic vision of urban governance.
Other form:	Print version 9780226130699

Table of Contents:

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.