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Abandoned in the Heartland

Author : Jennifer Hamer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950178
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned in the Heartland written by Jennifer Hamer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St. Louis, Illinois. Once a thriving manufacturing and transportation center, East St. Louis is now known for its unemployment, crime, and collapsing infrastructure. Abandoned in the Heartland takes us into the lives of East St. Louis’s predominantly African American residents to find out what has happened since industry abandoned the city, and jobs, quality schools, and city services disappeared, leaving people isolated and imperiled. Jennifer Hamer introduces men who search for meaning and opportunity in dead-end jobs, women who often take on caretaking responsibilities until well into old age, and parents who have the impossible task of protecting their children in this dangerous, and literally toxic, environment. Illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs showing how the city has changed over time, this book, full of stories of courage and fortitude, offers a powerful vision of the transformed circumstances of life in one American suburb.

East St. Louis

Author : Bill Nunes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738582801
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book East St. Louis written by Bill Nunes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the early history of East St. Louis, which was officially established in 1861.

Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917

Author : Elliott M. Rudwick
Publisher : Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 by : Elliott M. Rudwick

Download or read book Race Riot at East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 written by Elliott M. Rudwick and published by Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 2, 191 7, the most violent American race riot of the twentieth century occurred at East St. Louis, Illinois. White mobs, un-restrained by the police or the Illinois National Guard, ram-paged through the heart of the city, leaving at least thirty-nine Negroes and nine white people dead and almost $500,000 in property damage. In a book that combines an exciting discussion of the riot and its aftermath with a penetrating analysis of its origins, Professor Rudwick of Southern Illinois University has produced one of the most comprehensive studies of a major racial conflict to appear in recent years. The riot was precipitated by numerous racial incidents in May and June, climaxed by the shooting of two white detectives by Negroes on July 1. However, the author reveals, with careful documentation, that the seeds of racial violence had been nurtured for years by the distressing economic and political conditions of East St. Louis. from http://www.jstor.org (Sep. 25, 2014).

Made in USA

Author : Andrew J. Theising
Publisher : Virginia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781891442216
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Made in USA written by Andrew J. Theising and published by Virginia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever comprehensive history of this troubled city, the book includes more than 250 photographs amd images of the people and events that shaped East St. Louis. Andrew Theising, a professor of political science at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, examines the city's past from the prominent role it played in the growth of 19th century industrial America to its presently depleted state. For Theising, East St. Louis is more than just a river city suburb; it is an example of industry creating and then abandoning a city, and it is also one of the most misunderstood cities in America.

A Comprehensive City Plan for East St. Louis, Illinois

Author : Harland Bartholomew
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comprehensive City Plan for East St. Louis, Illinois written by Harland Bartholomew and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

East St. Louis

Author : Lee A. Drake
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1684563909
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book East St. Louis written by Lee A. Drake and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East St. Louis, Illinois had, and still has, a very colorful history. Since the 1970's there has been a steady decline of this city, in the shadow of the Gateway Arch. After returning from Viet Nam at the end of 1970, the author found himself working at City Hall in East St. Louis, a place where he had been raised. This coincided with the election of the first Black mayor for the city. He had friends and relatives in all parts of the city. He knew the streets, alleys, and playgrounds from hanging out in those places during his childhood. During his employment in the city's government, there was a loss of control of millions of dollars of federal funds. The actions of certain people in the city's government contributed to this loss for control. The loss of its Prime Sponsorship designation made it impossible for the city to provide jobs and job training for many people depending on the funds to live. This account describes some of the actions during that period that led to the loss of its Prime Sponsorship. It will allow the reader some background as to why East St. Louis is a mere shell of its former glory.

The East St. Louis Area

Author : Capital Development Board of the State of Illinois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The East St. Louis Area written by Capital Development Board of the State of Illinois and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Pogrom

Author : Charles L. Lumpkins
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821418033
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book American Pogrom written by Charles L. Lumpkins and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city's history to explore black people's activism from the antebellum era to the eve of the post-World War II civil rights movement. Charles Lumpkins shows that black residents of East St. Louis had engaged in formal politics since the 1870s, exerting influence through the ballot and through patronage in a city dominated by powerful real estate interests even as many African Americans elsewhere experienced setbacks in exercising their political and economic rights. While Lumpkins asserts that the race riots were a pogrom--an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group--orchestrated by certain businessmen intent on preventing black residents from attaining political power and on turning the city into a "sundown" town permanently cleared of African Americans, he also demonstrates how the African American community survived. He situates the activities of the black citizens of East St. Louis in the context of the larger story of the African American quest for freedom, citizenship, and equality.

Savage Inequalities

Author : Jonathan Kozol
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0770436668
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Savage Inequalities written by Jonathan Kozol and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”—The New York Times Book Review In 1988, Jonathan Kozol set off to spend time with children in the American public education system. For two years, he visited schools in neighborhoods across the country, from Illinois to Washington, D.C., and from New York to San Antonio. He spoke with teachers, principals, superintendents, and, most important, children. What he found was devastating. Not only were schools for rich and poor blatantly unequal, the gulf between the two extremes was widening—and it has widened since. The urban schools he visited were overcrowded and understaffed, and lacked the basic elements of learning—including books and, all too often, classrooms for the students. In Savage Inequalities, Kozol delivers a searing examination of the extremes of wealth and poverty and calls into question the reality of equal opportunity in our nation’s schools. Praise for Savage Inequalities “I was unprepared for the horror and shame I felt. . . . Savage Inequalities is a savage indictment. . . . Everyone should read this important book.”—Robert Wilson, USA Today “Kozol has written a book that must be read by anyone interested in education.”—Elizabeth Duff, Philadelphia Inquirer “The forces of equity have now been joined by a powerful voice. . . . Kozol has written a searing exposé of the extremes of wealth and poverty in America’s school system and the blighting effect on poor children, especially those in cities.”—Emily Mitchell, Time “Easily the most passionate, and certain to be the most passionately debated, book about American education in several years . . . A classic American muckraker with an eloquent prose style, Kozol offers . . . an old-fashioned brand of moral outrage that will affect every reader whose heart has not yet turned to stone.”—Entertainment Weekly

History of East St. Louis

Author : Robert A. Tyson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338523171X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book History of East St. Louis written by Robert A. Tyson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Abandoned in the Heartland

Author : Jennifer Hamer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520269314
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Abandoned in the Heartland written by Jennifer Hamer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Politicians today giddily cut taxes and public services without considering the consequences. Read this sensitive portrait of East St. Louis to understand the social costs of government abandonment. Families can and do survive amidst the crumbling infrastructure. But without decent jobs, medical care, and housing, their daily lives are filled with danger and desperation. Hamer makes an urgent case for reinvesting in the American Dream.” —Christine L. Williams, Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin “Abandoned in the Heartland presents a unique portrait relative to the common vision of urban poverty in America. In doing so, it allows for broader and healthier thinking about what it means to be poor in a community of people who share that status." --Alford Young, Jr., Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Michigan, and author of The Minds of Marginalized Black Men

An East St. Louis Anthology

Author : Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891442797
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Book Synopsis An East St. Louis Anthology by : Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research

Download or read book An East St. Louis Anthology written by Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Institute for Urban Research and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of facsimile reproductions of excerpts from: History of East St. Louis, by Robert A. Tyson (1875); Saint Louis : the future great city of the world, by Logan Reavis (1876); History of St. Clair County, Illinois (1881); Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, and, History of St. Clair County (1907); Standard atlas of St. Clair County, Illinois (1901); Directory of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1893); East St. Louis directory (1887); Ordinances of the city of East St. Louis, St. Clair County, Illinois (1884).

Why East St. Louis Needs to be a Demonstration City

Author : Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Public Administration and Metropolitan Affairs Program
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why East St. Louis Needs to be a Demonstration City written by Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Public Administration and Metropolitan Affairs Program and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discovering African American St. Louis

Author : John Aaron Wright
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781883982454
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Discovering African American St. Louis written by John Aaron Wright and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city's founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994. A new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long. The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis's rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, "No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again."

Community Development

Author : United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Community Development written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History of East St. Louis

Author : Robert A. Tyson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book History of East St. Louis written by Robert A. Tyson and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis

Author : M. McLaughlin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403978646
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Power, Community, and Racial Killing in East St. Louis written by M. McLaughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-27 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malcolm McLaughlin's work presents a detailed analysis of the East St. Louis race riot in 1917, offering new insights into the construction of white identity and racism. He illuminates the "world of East St Louis", life in its factories and neighborhoods, its popular culture, and City Hall politics, to place the race riot in the context of the city's urban development.