CHAPTER XII: THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR WASHINGTON, 1946-1954.
In: Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital; 1967, p274-312, 39p, 1 Chart
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The article illustrates the impact of the World War II on the Negro community in Washington. The mounting racism which had alarmed anti-segregationists as early as 1943 looked formidable at the end of 1945. Destined to become the most fundamental problem confronting the city during the next eight years, the conflict anticipated by half a decade the turmoil that engulfed the rest of the U.S. in the late 1950s. Various imponderables cluttering the stage delayed action at the opening of the postwar drama. Federal demobilization officials had estimated at the end of October 1945 that 8 million Americans would be out of work in 1946 when troops returned from overseas received their dischargers and an anticipated business recession followed on the heels of cutbacks in industrial production. Reductions in the workforce of government agencies, already taking effect in Washington, would aggravate unemployment in the months ahead. In August 1946, the U.S. Congress passed a long-delayed District Redevelopment Act of 1945, creating a five-member Redevelopment Land Agency but instructing the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to prepare a land-use plan to guide the rebuilding of Washington's slum-ridden areas, to locate new highways, parks and playground and to specify the sites for new public buildings.
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CHAPTER XII: THE LEGAL BATTLE FOR WASHINGTON, 1946-1954.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Green, Constance Mc ; Laughlin |
Quelle: | Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital; 1967, p274-312, 39p, 1 Chart |
Veröffentlichung: | 1967 |
Medientyp: | Buch |
ISBN: | 978-0-691-00568-3 (print) |
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