Struggle for the Street
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Black Pittsburgh
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Civil rights movement in Pittsburgh
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Hill District
Modern Black Freedom Struggle in the North
Social Movements
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- ISBN 9781469673714
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 11 Apr 2023
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cities are nothing without the streets—the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality.
In chapters that move from one micro-community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.
In chapters that move from one micro-community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.
Jessica D. Klanderud is associate professor of African and African American studies and history at Berea College.
