Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City, Volume 1This book is a historical and sociological account of the people of Chicago's South Side from the 1840s through the 1930s based on research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers. It offers a comprehensive analysis of black migration, settlement, community structure, and black-white race relations in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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Page 243
... Depression on the white family budget was reflected in the widespread dismissal of Negro servants and in the drastic lowering of wages for those who remained . Yet , throughout the Depression , Negro women continued to supple- ment ...
... Depression on the white family budget was reflected in the widespread dismissal of Negro servants and in the drastic lowering of wages for those who remained . Yet , throughout the Depression , Negro women continued to supple- ment ...
Page 386
... Depression resulted in much actual suffering in Bronzeville , the WPA eventually provided a bedrock of subsistence which guaranteed food and clothing . The ministrations of social workers and wide edu- cation in the use of public health ...
... Depression resulted in much actual suffering in Bronzeville , the WPA eventually provided a bedrock of subsistence which guaranteed food and clothing . The ministrations of social workers and wide edu- cation in the use of public health ...
Page 597
... Depression has caused a lot more hardship among the Negroes than it has among the whites . Since the Depression prostitution has increased about 20 per cent . Recently our 12 P.M. - to - 8 A.M. shift has picked up an average of a ...
... Depression has caused a lot more hardship among the Negroes than it has among the whites . Since the Depression prostitution has increased about 20 per cent . Recently our 12 P.M. - to - 8 A.M. shift has picked up an average of a ...
Contents
Midwest Metropolis | 3 |
PART I | 31 |
Flight to Freedom au w | 46 |
Copyright | |
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