The Rise of Chicago's Black Metropolis, 1920-1929 by Christopher Robert Reed

Author:Christopher Robert Reed [Reed, Christopher Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Ethnic Studies, American, African American & Black Studies, History, United States, 20th Century, Sociology, Urban
ISBN: 9780252093173
Google: f6WdTUlpPigC
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011-04-15T02:39:23+00:00

CHAPTER 5

The Struggle for Control over Black Politics and Protest

Probably no racial group in the country (unless it be the Irish) is more manifestly “political” in its everyday life than the American Negro…. [T]he Chicago group is one of the most progressive of the country, economically, politically, and culturally.

—Ralph J. Bunche, 1928

What a change ten years has wrought in the affairs of our people! … The changes wrought seem almost revolutionary and not a gradual and continual change in the regular or evolutionary course of affairs.

—Joseph D. Bibb, 1929

[To the query as to who controls the Black Metropolis’s voting bloc] “I am the group.”

—Edward H. Wright to the Special Committee Investigating Expenditures in Senatorial and General Elections, 1926

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