African Americans in the Furniture City : the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids / Randal Maurice Jelks.
By: Jelks, Randal Maurice
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TextPublisher: Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press, c2006Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.Description: xvii, 217 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780252030406 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780252073472 (paper : alk. paper).Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History | Civil rights movements -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- History | African Americans -- Michigan -- Grand Rapids -- Social conditions | Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Race relations | Grand Rapids (Mich.) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 305.8/96073/077455 Online resources: Table of contents | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 305.896073 J392 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003740040 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-205) and index.
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 : "Outstretched hand and clenched fist" : Black consciousness and the second ghetto.
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