| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.2

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Book Review

Prophets of Rage: The Black Freedom Struggle in San Francisco, 1945–1969. By Daniel Crowe. (New York: Garland, 2000. xiv, 309 pp. $75.00, ISBN 0-8153-3766-3.)

Reading Prophets of Rage reminds one of the debt historians of African American urban history owe Allan H. Spear's classic Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto (1967), one of the finest studies of the development of an "inner" city up to that time. Unfortunately, in many ways much of African American urban history has not yet gone beyond this groundbreaking work. 1

Although Daniel Crowe is writing about the San Francisco Bay area, starting with the World War II migration and its aftermath and including the civil rights and Black Power eras, his book is very similar in structure and analysis to Spear's. Crowe's description of the effects of the World War II migration on the Bay Area reads remarkably like black Chicago during World War I: the "supposed" fluidity of race relations before the migration; the "old" settlers initially rejecting the newcomers; the newcomers having to face intra- and intergroup hostility; and continued racial discrimination leading inevitably to an uprising. . . .

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