Pittsburgh and the Urban League movement [electronic resource] : a century of social service and activism / Joe William Trotter Jr.
"During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant social and cultural scenes inspired dreams of prosperity and a new start, but this urban haven was not f...
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| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2020]
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| Series: | Civil rights and the struggle for black equality in the twentieth century
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Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement: A Century of Social Service and Activism |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1. Founding and early history -- Quest for jobs and housing -- Promise and limits -- Part 2. The Depression and World War II -- Surviving the Depression -- Establishing a new social service regime -- Part 3. The modern black freedom movement and beyond -- Combating inequality in the postwar city -- Navigating civil rights and Black Power struggles -- Confronting decline and facilitating renaissance. | |
| 520 | |a "During the Great Migration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, became a mecca for African Americans seeking better job opportunities, wages, and living conditions. The city's thriving economy and vibrant social and cultural scenes inspired dreams of prosperity and a new start, but this urban haven was not free of discrimination and despair. In the face of injustice, activists formed the Urban League of Pittsburgh (ULP) in 1918 to combat prejudice and support the city's growing African American population. In this broad-ranging history, Joe William Trotter Jr. uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social programs' deep class and gender limitations. Surveying issues including housing, healthcare, and occupational mobility, Trotter underscores how the ULP-often in concert with the Urban League's national headquarters-bridged social divisions to improve the lives of black citizens of every class. He also sheds new light on the branch's nonviolent direct-action campaigns and places these powerful grassroots operations within the context of the modern Black Freedom Movement. The impact of the National Urban League is a hotly debated topic in African American social and political history. Trotter's study provides valuable new insights that demonstrate how the organization has relieved massive suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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