Oliver Ayers

Laboured Protest

Black Civil Rights in New York City and Detroit During the New Deal and Second World War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book re-interprets black political protest during the New Deal and WWII in New York and Detroit. Assessing the achievements of activists on the left and others who signed up to liberal and nationalist political platforms, it reveals a more complex civil rights movement than previously thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 295g
• ISBN-13: 9780367582302
• ISBN-10: 0367582309
• Artikelnr.: 69891657

Autorenporträt

Oliver Ayers is a Lecturer in Modern History at the New College of the Humanities in London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The New Deal, the Rise of Organized Labour and National
Civil Rights Organizations During the 1930s 2. When "Poems Became
Placards": Black Protest in 1930s New York City 3. Civil Rights Activism in
Detroit in the Era of Unionization, 1933-1941 4. "Getting a Grand Runaround
by Management, Government and the Union": The Shifting Contours of
Employment Discrimination in Wartime 5. The March on Washington Movement
and National-Level Protest During the Second World War 6. A Tale of Two
Committees: Black Protest in Wartime New York City 7. Black Protests
Against Employment Discrimination in Wartime Detroit. Conclusion: Civil
Rights Activism in the Era of Laboured Protest