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  • CENTRAL: Local History
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African Americans in the Furniture City : the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids

Call Number

  • H 323.1196 J48 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2006.

Physical Description

xvii, 217 p. ; ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents

  • The Negro, North and South : racial stigma in nineteenth-century Grand Rapids
  • In colored circles : the shape of African American civil society
  • "Thirteen races and nationalities" : the politics of race relations in the age of Booker T. Washington
  • Making opportunity : new Negroes and the struggle against Jim Crow
  • "Southern Negroes flock to Michigan" : social welfare and northern migration
  • The making of the Brough Community Association : the limits of class and interracial cooperation
  • "Today's Negro and tomorrow's world" : African American protest and the politics of leadership
  • Conclusion : "Outstreched hand and clenched fist" : Black consciousness and the second ghetto.

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