Description: Trotter's study provides valuable new insights that demonstrate how the organization has relieved massive suffering and racial inequality in US cities for more than a century.
Brief description: Joe William Trotter Jr. is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE) at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author or coauthor of numerous publications, including Race and Renaissance: African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II, Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat, 1915-1945, and Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America.
Review Quotes:
This innovative, interesting book makes a significant contribution to the fields of modern US history, urban history, civil rights, the history of the Black Power movement, and African American history. With a focus on the Urban League of Pittsburgh, Trotter contributes to the small but important body of scholarship on the National Urban League.
--Brian Purnell, author of Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn