Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226768571)

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 injustices of the North. Spear, by his objective treatment of the results of white racism, gives an effective, timely reminder of the serious urban problems that are the legacy of prejudice.

Author: Allan H. Spear
ISBN-10: 0226768570
ISBN-13: 9780226768571
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/1969
Pages: 271
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.28w x 0.67d