Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr. offers a new perspective that complements yet also goes well beyond that approach. The blacks in Black Milwaukee were not only ghetto dwellers; they were also industrial workers. The process by which they achieved this status is the subject of Trotter's ground-breaking study. This second edition features a new preface and acknowledgments, an essay on African American urban history since 1985, a prologue on the antebellum and Civil War roots of Milwaukee's black community, and an epilogue on the post-World War II years and the impact of deindustrialization, all by the author. Brief essays by four of Trotter's colleagues--William P. Jones, Earl Lewis, Alison Isenberg, and Kimberly L. Phillips--assess the impact of the original Black Milwaukee on the study of African American urban history over the past twenty years. |
Contents
Proletarianization 191532 | 39 |
Emergence of the New Middle Class | 80 |
Race Relations Politics and Institutions | 115 |
Depression World War II and | 145 |
Race Class and Politics during | 196 |
Proletarianization of AfroAmericans | 226 |
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Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 Joe William Trotter No preview available - 1985 |
Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-45 Joe William Trotter No preview available - 1985 |
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Afro Afro-Americans Allis Chalmers American black business black community black industrial black middle class Black Milwaukee black population black women black workers blacks and whites Blade business and professional CBLA Census church city's Clerical Colored Company Depression DeReef developed domestic and personal Dorsey economic election emerged employers employment ethnic expanding FEPC Foreign-born whites ghetto Ghetto Takes Shape Gilmer Halyard Hoan Papers housing increasing institutions interview Josey Kelley Kusmer labor unions migration Milwau Milwaukee blacks Milwaukee County Milwaukee Journal Milwaukee Urban League Milwaukee's MUL Monthly Report NAACP Papers Negro northern cities number of black Number Percent Number occupations old elite organizations Percent Number Percent personal service political proletarianization race relations racial discrimination rept segregation Semiskilled Sixth Ward skilled social socioeconomic South southern tion U.S. Census Bureau University University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee unskilled waukee white workers whites American-born Wisconsin working-class World World War II
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Page 279 - E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in Chicago (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1932); E. Franklin Frazier, The Negro Family in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939); Daniel P.