When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, Atlanta had the South's largest population of college-educated African Americans. The dictates of Jim Crow meant that these men and women were almost entirely excluded from public life, but as Karen Ferguson demonstrates, Roosevelt's New Deal opened unprecedented opportunities for black Atlantans struggling to achieve full citizenship. Black reformers, often working within federal agencies as social workers and administrators, saw the inclusion of African Americans in New Deal social welfare programs as a chance to prepare black Atlantans to take their rightful place in the political and social mainstream. They also worked to build a constituency they could mobilize for civil rights, in the process facilitating a shift from elite reform to the mass mobilization that marked the postwar black freedom struggle. Although these reformers' efforts were an essential prelude to civil rights activism, Ferguson argues that they also had lasting negative repercussions, embedded as they were in the politics of respectability. By attempting to impose bourgeois behavioral standards on the black community, elite reformers stratified it into those they determined deserving to participate in federal social welfare programs and those they consigned to remain at the margins of civic life.

Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture)

History

Ferguson, Karen

Americas

The University of North Carolina Press

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

Received honorable mention for the 2014 Canadian Association for American Studies Robert K. Martin 
At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted self-determination over color-blind assimilation, was often characterized as radical and divisive. But Foundation president McGeorge Bundy chose to engage rather than confront black power's challenge to racial liberalism through an ambitious, long-term strategy to foster the "social development" of racial minorities. The Ford Foundation not only bankrolled but originated many of the black power era's hallmark legacies: community control of public schools, ghetto-based economic development initiatives, and race-specific arts and cultural organizations.
In Top Down, Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of this counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the liberal establishment and black activists and their ideas. In essence, the white liberal effort to reforge a national consensus on race had the effect of remaking racial liberalism from the top down—a domestication of black power ideology that still flourishes in current racial politics. Ultimately, this new racial liberalism would help foster a black leadership class—including Barack Obama—while accommodating the intractable inequality that first drew the Ford Foundation to address the "race problem."

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism (Politics and Culture in Modern America)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

University of Pennsylvania Press

Do you want a life that is drenched in INSPIRATION and HAPPINESS? The SOULWOMAN CIRCLES LIFE PLANNER is a companion to help you dream big, find your passion, and make 2016 a year that is as beautiful, big-hearted, and brilliant as YOU!

Soulwoman Circles - LIFE PLANNER 2016

Self-Help

Rose, D. Ed Mia

Motivational

Soulwoman Publishing

No one is immune to the stresses of daily life. The unrelenting demands of work, home, finances, and relationships can be overwhelming and can have a serious effect on our health and well-being. If we let it. Yet, in the midst of all the chatter, chaos, and clutter, God’s still, small voice calls out to us to choose a better way. A way of peace and greater well-being. Breath of Life is an insightful twenty-one-day devotional designed to appeal to the busy person. Join the journey, and discover a balanced, whole-being approach to wellness that is centered on the spirit-breathed Word of God. Inspiring and practical, each daily devotional explores one of the seven dimensions of wellness that contribute to optimal well-being and presents a My Daily Breath section that includes one or more of the following:•A song recommendation for inspiration•A verse for meditation•A question for reflection•A tool for practical applicationGod’s promise of peace is available to us all. We only need to slow down, pursue Him, and breathe deep.

Breath of Life: Living God's Promise of Peace in the 7 Dimensions of Wellness

Religion & Spirituality

Illuminate Communications LLC

Telling readers what they need to know now to protect their pensions, two pension experts and reform advocates reveal the pitfalls in the system, ask disturbing questions, and offer valuable advice to protect retirement income. 20,000 first printing.

Pensions in Crisis: Why the System is Failing America and How You Can Protect Your Future

Blackwell, Kate

Parenting & Relationships

Arcade Publishing

A valuable financial resource provides an in-depth analysis of the magnitude of the pension crisis, gives a detailed explanation of the pension system, informs readers about the best plans for their lifestyles, and guides them to a secure future. Reprint.

The Pension Book: What You Need to Know to Prepare for Retirement

Business & Money

Personal Finance

Guess How Much God Loves You

Guess How Much God Loves You is the story of seven-year-old Lucy Lu, a colorful, creatively curious first-grader, who is starting to have serious questions about God. <ul> <li>How old is He?</li> <li>Does He sleep?</li> <li>What does He do all day?</li> <li>And the biggest one of all-does God love me?</li> </ul> After one particularly hard day of being bullied by her classmates at school, Lucy feels like she doesn't matter. She sits with Papa Joe, who has promised to answer her questions about God, launching them onto a journey to discover God's never-changing, never-failing, never-ending love. What follows is a wild adventure through the Bible, where Lucy and her papa find themselves in the middle of each page of the exciting story of God's love and faithfulness for all people throughout all of history.

Guess How Much God Loves You (Questions for Kids)

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Emerald House Group, Incorporated

Guess Who Is in God's Family (Questions for Kids)

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