| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.2

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Canada and the United States

Karen Ferguson. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2002. Pp. xvi, 336. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

Karen Ferguson makes a valuable contribution to the historiography of the African-American freedom struggle with this book. Recent studies of the civil rights movement have drawn attention to class divisions within the black community, while scholars and public commentators alike have noted the widening divide between the upper and middle-class black Americans who benefited most from the legislative successes of the 1960s and poorer people whose lives remained essentially unchanged. Ferguson brings these two elements together in her examination of strategies for racial "uplift" and inclusion employed by elite black reformers in the early twentieth century. Building on earlier studies of uplift ideology by historians such as Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Stephanie J. Shaw, and Kevin K. Gaines, she analyzes the limits of middle-class black leaders' definitions of citizenship and their impact on poor black people. . . .

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