Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto: 1890-1920 - Allan H. Spear - 1967 The University of Chicago Press Paperback Peter F. Hamilton Blurb: Library Journal calls Howard

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Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto: 1890-1920 - Allan H. Spear - 1967 The University of Chicago Press Paperback Peter F. Hamilton Blurb: Library Journal calls HowardCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Blurb: Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination. This is the first historical study of the ghetto made famous by the sociological classics of St. Clair Drake, E. Franklin Frazier, and othersby the novels of Richard Wright,