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A New Deal for Bronzeville
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Lionel Kimble Jr., an associate professor of history at Chicago State University, is the president of the Chicago Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. His essays have appeared in the Journal of Illinois History and the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, and he has published chapters in several encyclopedias.

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"Kimble has written an excellent study not only on the history of a community but also on the limits of reform party politics."--Kenneth W. Goings, Indiana Magazine of History "This book provides a very readable and often insightful exploration of how the New Deal and WW II shaped the African American campaign for economic and social rights in postwar Chicago."--CHOICE "Lionel Kimble Jr.'s A New Deal for Bronzeville fills an important and heretofore ignored gap in both American and black Chicago history from the latter part of the Depression through the first decade after World War II. Kimble perceptively focuses on the nexus of intense struggles in housing, employment, and civil rights, all enveloped in the motivations and expectations for change of Chicago's energized black population. On its own to a great extent and often acting in coalitions, this populace, its ranks filled with veterans and wartime skilled and unskilled workers, engaged in an informally structured strategy that produced some remarkable successes for the day despite pervasive racism."--Christopher Robert Reed, author of The Depression Comes to the South Side

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