The first scholarly study of a local racial advancement
organization, "History of the Chicago Urban League" provides a
detailed history of the Chicago League from its founding in 1916
through the early years of the civil rights movement in the 1960s
and relates the work of this agency to broader developments in
Chicago and the nation. In his introduction, Christopher Robert
Reed, author of "The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black
Professional Leadership, 1910-1966, " cites Strickland's work as a
landmark study of the earliest civil rights efforts in Chicago.
Strickland begins by tracing the development of the League
through the various socioeconomic upheavals of this century and
describes its services to the African American community so
strongly affected by those events. He examines the methods of the
League, its sources of financial support over the years, and the
individual efforts and contributions of such dedicated leaders as
T. Arnold Hill, Albon L. Foster, Sidney Williams, and Edwin C.
Berry.
As he studies the approaches utilized by the Chicago Urban
League in adjusting to the challenges resulting from the "Black
Revolt," Strickland explores the forces that contributed to the
effectiveness of the organization's efforts to improve African
American life in Chicago during the 1960s. In a brief preface to
this new edition of History of the Chicago Urban League, Strickland
recalls his own experience as a young man from small-town
Mississippi being immersed in the urbanization of a major American
city.
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