Not alms but opportunity : the Urban League and the politics of racial uplift, 1910-1950 / Touré F. Reed.

Author: Reed, Touré F.

Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

ISBN: 9780807832233 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807832235 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859025 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859028 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Description: p. cm.

Subject: National Urban League History 20th century.
African Americans New York (State) New York Social conditions 20th century.
African Americans Illinois Chicago Social conditions 20th century.
Social classes New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Social classes Illinois Chicago History 20th century.
African Americans Social conditions To 1964.
African Americans Economic conditions 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.

Contents: The ideological origins of the Urban League -- Community development and housing, 1910-1932 -- Vocational training, employment, and job placements, 1910-1932 -- Labor unions, social reorganization, and the acculturation of Black workers, 1910-1932 -- Vocational guidance and organized labor, 1933-1940 -- Employment from the March on Washington movement to the Pilot Placement Project, 1940-1950 -- Housing and neighborhood work in the age of the welfare state, 1933-1950.