John Hervey Wheeler, Black banking, and the economic struggle for civil rights /

John Hervey Wheeler was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Winford, Brandon K. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [2020]
Series:	Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:	Wheeler, John H. > (John Hervey) United States. > President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity > Biography. Democratic Party (N.C.) > Biography. African American civil rights workers > North Carolina > Biography. Civil rights workers > North Carolina > Biography. African American bankers > North Carolina > Durham > Biography. Bankers > North Carolina > Durham > Biography. African Americans > Civil rights > North Carolina > History > 20th century. African Americans > North Carolina > Economic conditions. North Carolina > Biography.

Table of Contents:

From Slavery to Middle-Class Respectability
Black Business Activism in the Great Depression
The Battle for Educational Equality in the Postwar New South
Direct Action and the Search for "Freedom of Movement"
Equal Employment, Voting Rights, and Public Policy at the National Level
Urban Renewal and the Prospects of a Free and Open Society.