Contents Series Editors' Foreword iv Graham Russell Hodges and Margaret Washington Acknowledgements xi Preface xii Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Walter Hill Prologue 1 Henry Lousi Taylor Jr., and Walter Hill Part I Home and Community Building 27 CHAPTER 1 A Unity of Opposties: The Black College-Educated Elite, Black Workers, and the Community Development Process Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Song-Ho Ha CHAPTER 2 Creating the Metropolis in Black and White: Black Suburbanization and the Planning Movement in Cincinnatti, 1900-1950 51 Henry Louis Taylor, Jr CHAPTER 3 Municipal Harmony: Cultural Pluralism, Public Recreation, and Race Relations 73 Andrea Tuttle Kornbluh CHAPTER 4 From Auburn Avenue to Buttermilk bottom: Class and Community Dynamics among Atlanta's Balcks 109 Georgina Hickey CHAPTER 5 Balcks in the Surburban and Rural Fringe 145 Andrew Wise PART II Work and Federal Policy 175 CHAPTER 6 African Americans in the U. S Econom: Federal Policy and the Transformation of Work, 1915-1945 177 Liesl Miller Orenic and Joe W. Trotter CHAPTER 7 The Battle Against Wage Slavery: The National Urban League, the NAACP, and the Struggle over New Deal Policies 209 Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., Vicky Dula, and Sigmund Shipp CHAPTER 9 Black Workers, Trade Unions, adn Labor Standards: The Wartime FEPC 251 Eileen Boris Epilogue: African Americans and the Dawning of the Postindustrial Era Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., and Mark Naison 275 Contributors 287 Index 291 Economy:.