African Americans in the Furniture City : the struggle for civil rights in Grand Rapids /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jelks, Randal Maurice, 1956-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]
Subjects:	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 conditions.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

"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 : "Outstreched hand into a clenched fist".