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The Rise of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920-1929 (New Black Studies Series)

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During the Roaring ’20s, African Americans impulsively transformed their Chicago into a “black metropolis.” On this book, Christopher Robert Reed describes the upward push 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 impulsively transformed Chicago and achieved political and economic recognition by building at 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 keep an eye on 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 variety of historical data, The Upward push of Chicago’s Black Metropolis, 1920–1929 delineates a internet of dynamic social forces to make clear 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, latest scholars and activists, and personal interviews.

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