Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929
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African American business history
African American churches
African American elite
African American entrepreneurs
African American labor
African American middle class
African American newspapers
African American politics
African American professionals
African American urban history
African American work
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black business
black business history
black churches
black entrepreneurs
black middle class
black newspapers
black professionals
black working class
business culture
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community building
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Product details
- ISBN 9780252036231
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2011
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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During the Roaring '20s, African Americans rapidly transformed their Chicago into a "black metropolis." In this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the rise of African Americans in Chicago's political economy, bringing to life the fleeting vibrancy of this dynamic period of racial consciousness and solidarity. Reed shows how African Americans rapidly transformed Chicago and achieved political and economic recognition by building on the massive population growth after the Great Migration from the South, the entry of a significant working class into the city's industrial work force, and the proliferation of black churches. Mapping out the labor issues and the struggle for control of black politics and black business, Reed offers an unromanticized view of the entrepreneurial efforts of black migrants, reassessing previous accounts such as St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton's 1945 study Black Metropolis. Utilizing a wide range of historical data, The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920–1929 delineates a web of dynamic social forces to shed light on black businesses and the establishment of a black professional class. The exquisitely researched volume draws on fictional and nonfictional accounts of the era, black community guides, mainstream and community newspapers, contemporary scholars and activists, and personal interviews.
Christopher R. Reed is a professor emeritus of history at Roosevelt University and the author of "All the World is Here": The Black Presence at White City and The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910–1966.
