Laboured Protest: Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit During the New Deal and Second World War

ISBN-13: 9780367582302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 290 str.

Oliver Ayers

Opis

This book re-interprets black political protest during the New Deal and WWII in New York and Detroit. Assessing the achievements of activists on the left and others who signed up to liberal and nationalist political platforms, it reveals a more complex civil rights movement than previously thought.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The New Deal, the Rise of Organized Labour and National Civil Rights Organizations During the 1930s  2. When "Poems Became Placards": Black Protest in 1930s New York City  3. Civil Rights Activism in Detroit in the Era of Unionization, 1933-1941 4. "Getting a Grand Runaround by Management, Government and the Union": The Shifting Contours of Employment Discrimination in Wartime  5. The March on Washington Movement and National-Level Protest During the Second World War  6. A Tale of Two Committees: Black Protest in Wartime New York City  7. Black Protests Against Employment Discrimination in Wartime Detroit.  Conclusion: Civil Rights Activism in the Era of Laboured Protest

O autorze

Oliver Ayers is a Lecturer in Modern History at the New College of the Humanities in London.