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Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920

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Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 - Spear, Allan H
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Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination. This is the first historical study of the ghetto made famous by the sociological classics of St. Clair Drake, E. Franklin Frazier, and others--by the novels of Richard Wright, and by countless blues songs. It was this ghetto that Martin Luther King, Jr., chose to focus on when he turned attention to the racial ...

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Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 1967, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226768564

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