American Dream deferred : Black federal workers in Washington, DC, 1941-1981
Record details
- ISBN: 0822945398
- ISBN: 9780822945390
- ISBN: 0822986256
- ISBN: 9780822986256
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction: Painting the picture of black federal workers -- "Boy! Look at all these government girls!" : black opportunity in the nation's capital, 1941-1945 -- "Study long, study wrong" : achievements and limits of commissions studying discrimination in the federal workforce, 1945-1947 -- "This is not working" : white resistance to black persistence, 1948-1959 -- "Rats! Discriminated again" : Julius Hobson and the rising civil rights movement, 1960-1969 -- "I was hurting" : blacks in government on the mend, 1970-1981 -- Epilogue: A moving picture of black workers, 1980-1981. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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