Pittsburgh And The Urban League Movement

Author : Joe William TrotterJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813179933

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Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement by Joe William TrotterJr. Pdf

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.

Author : Joe William Trotter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0813179920

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Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement by Joe William Trotter Pdf

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 programmes' deep class and gender limitations.

Author : Joe William TrotterJr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813179940

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Pittsburgh and the Urban League Movement by Joe William TrotterJr. Pdf

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.

Author : Arthur J. Edmunds
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : African Americans
ISBN : PSU:000012216642

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Daybreakers, the Story of the Urban League of Pittsburgh by Arthur J. Edmunds Pdf

Author : Frick Art & Historical Center
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-13
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781439677407

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Pittsburgh and the Great Migration by Frick Art & Historical Center Pdf

During the Great Migration of 1916-1940 over two million African Americans left the American South seeking a greater quality of life, with the Steel City a major destination. Men and women packed up what they could fit in a suitcase or the trunk of a car and left behind their homes and families in search of better opportunities in the budding industries of the North and Midwest. They were escaping discriminatory laws and racial violence. Purchasing a car was one of the first things African Americans did as they moved into the middle class, providing a sense of freedom and automony unexerienced before. This mobility and the freedom to come and go as one pleases revolutionized the Black middle class in Pittsburgh and played a pivitol role in the Great Migration's effects upon the region. The Frick Pittsburgh's Car and Carriage Museum presents the harrowing history of Pittsburgh in the Great Migration and the role the car played in the growth of Black mobility and automony.

Author : Traci Parker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9798890851420

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement by Traci Parker Pdf

In this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, and broadens our understanding of historical transformations in African American class and labor formation. Built on the goals, organization, and momentum of earlier struggles for justice, the department store movement channeled the power of store workers and consumers to promote black freedom in the mid-twentieth century. Sponsoring lunch counter sit-ins and protests in the 1950s and 1960s, and challenging discrimination in the courts in the 1970s, this movement ended in the early 1980s with the conclusion of the Sears, Roebuck, and Co. affirmative action cases and the transformation and consolidation of American department stores. In documenting the experiences of African American workers and consumers during this era, Parker highlights the department store as a key site for the inception of a modern black middle class, and demonstrates the ways that both work and consumption were battlegrounds for civil rights.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : African American women
ISBN : PSU:000050649457

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Black Papers on African American Health in Allegheny County by Anonim Pdf

Author : Joe W. Trotter,Jared N. Day
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822977551

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Race and Renaissance by Joe W. Trotter,Jared N. Day Pdf

African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. From jazz legend Earl Fatha Hines to playwright August Wilson, from labor protests in the 1950s to the Black Power movement of the late 1960s, Pittsburgh has been a force for change in American race and class relations. Race and Renaissance presents the first history of African American life in Pittsburgh after World War II. It examines the origins and significance of the second Great Migration, the persistence of Jim Crow into the postwar years, the second ghetto, the contemporary urban crisis, the civil rights and Black Power movements, and the Million Man and Million Woman marches, among other topics. In recreating this period, Trotter and Day draw not only from newspaper articles and other primary and secondary sources, but also from oral histories. These include interviews with African Americans who lived in Pittsburgh during the postwar era, uncovering firsthand accounts of what life was truly like during this transformative epoch in urban history. In these ways, Race and Renaissance illuminateshow African Americans arrived at their present moment in history. It also links movements for change to larger global issues: civil rights with the Vietnam War; affirmative action with the movement against South African apartheid. As such, the study draws on both sociology and urban studies to deepen our understanding of the lives of urban blacks.

Author : Priscilla A. Dowden-White
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826272263

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Groping toward Democracy by Priscilla A. Dowden-White Pdf

Decades before the 1960s, social reformers began planting the seeds for the Modern Civil Rights era. During the period spanning World Wars I and II, St. Louis, Missouri, was home to a dynamic group of African American social welfare reformers. The city’s history and culture were shaped both by those who would construct it as a southern city and by the heirs of New England abolitionism. Allying with white liberals to promote the era’s new emphasis on “the common good,” black reformers confronted racial segregation and its consequences of inequality and, in doing so, helped to determine the gradual change in public policy that led to a more inclusive social order. In Groping toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910–1949, historian Priscilla A. Dowden-White presents an on-the-ground view of local institution building and community organizing campaigns initiated by African American social welfare reformers. Through extensive research, the author places African American social welfare reform efforts within the vanguard of interwar community and neighborhood organization, reaching beyond the “racial uplift” and “behavior” models of the studies preceding hers. She explores one of the era’s chief organizing principles, the “community as a whole” idea, and deliberates on its relationship to segregation and the St. Louis black community’s methods of reform. Groping toward Democracy depicts the dilemmas organizers faced in this segregated time, explaining how they pursued the goal of full, uncontested black citizenship while still seeking to maximize the benefits available to African Americans in segregated institutions. The book’s nuanced mapping of the terrain of social welfare offers an unparalleled view of the progress brought forth by the early-twentieth-century crusade for democracy and equality. By delving into interrelated developments in health care, education, labor, and city planning, Dowden-White deftly examines St. Louis’s African American interwar history. Her in-depth archival research fills a void in the scholarship of St. Louis’s social development, and her compelling arguments will be of great interest to scholars and teachers of American urban studies and social welfare history.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1628 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015028764101

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Hearings by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2506 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Educational law and legislation
ISBN : UCAL:B4437645

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Hearings, Reports, Public Laws by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1626 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009863775

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Economic Opportunity Act Amendments of 1967 by United States. Congress. House Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Arvarh E. Strickland
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0826213472

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History of the Chicago Urban League by Arvarh E. Strickland Pdf

Reed, author of The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910-1966, cites Strickland's work as a landmark study of the earliest civil rights efforts in Chicago."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : PSU:000051312824

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Economic Opportunity Act Amendments of 1967 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor Pdf

Author : Judith Walzer Leavitt
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Women
ISBN : 0299159647

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Women and Health in America by Judith Walzer Leavitt Pdf

Organised chronologically and then by topic, this volume covers studies of women and health in the colonial and revolutionary periods through the Civil War. The remainder of the book focuses on the late 19th and 20th centuries.