Struggle for the Street: Social Networks and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Pittsburgh

Cities are nothing without the streets--the arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow. Neighborhood by neighborhood, block by block, the city streets are where politics begins. In Struggle for the Street, Jessica D. Klanderud documents the development of class-based visions of political, social, and economic equality in Pittsburgh's African American community between World War I and the early 1970s. Klanderud emphasizes how middle-class and working-class African Americans struggled over the appropriate uses and dominant meanings of street spaces in their neighborhoods as they collectively struggled to define equality.

In chapters that move from one community to the next, Klanderud tracks the transformation of tactics over time with a streets-eye view that reveals the coalescing alliances between neighbors and through space. Drawing on oral histories of neighborhood residents, Black newspapers, and papers from the NAACP and Urban League, this study reveals complex class negotiations in the struggle for civil rights at the street level.

Author: Jessica D. Klanderud
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 04/11/2023
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN13: 9781469673714
ISBN10: 1469673711
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Social Science | Sociology | Urban
- History | United States | 20th Century