"This entrancing book looks at the clash of class and caste within the black community].... An important reexamination of African American history." Choice
The 1893 World s Columbian Exposition in Chicago showed the world that America had come of age. Dreaming that they could participate fully as citizens, African Americans flocked to the fair by the thousands. "All the World Is Here " examines why they came and the ways in which they took part in the Exposition. Their expectations varied. Well-educated, highly assimilated African Americans sought not just representation but...
"This entrancing book looks at the clash of class and caste within the black community].... An important reexamination of African American history...
..". the definitive history not only of the Chicago National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) but of the city s black middle class as well." Journal of American History
..". a candid portrait of the Chicago branch of the NAACP, one of the association s most important chapters.... It also offers a revealing window onto a half-century of race relations in Chicago." Chicago Tribune
Evolving through six decades of white resistance, black indifference and internal group struggle, the Chicago NAACP was affected both adversely and positively by two world wars,...
..". the definitive history not only of the Chicago National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) but of the city s black midd...
During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the rise of African Americans in Chicago's political economy, bringing to life the fleeting vibrancy of this dynamic period of racial consciousness and solidarity.Reed shows how African Americans rapidly transformed Chicago and achieved political and economic recognition by building on the massive population growth after the Great Migration from the South, the entry of a significant working class into the city's industrial work force, and the...
During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describe...
Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thoughtful volume by Christopher Robert Reed investigates black life in turn-of-the-century Chicago, revealing a vibrant community that grew and developed on Chicago s South Side in the early 1900s. Reed also explores the impact of the fifty thousand black southerners who streamed into the city during the Great Migration of 1916 1918, effectively doubling Chicago s African American population. Those already residing in Chicago s black neighborhoods had...
Disputing the so-called ghetto studies that depicted the early part of the twentieth century as the nadir of African American society, this thought...
