![]() | Canaan, Dim and Far : Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945 Canaan, Dim and Far argues for the importance of Pittsburgh as a case study in analyzing African American civil rights and political advocacy in an urban setting. Focusing on the period from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, this book spotlights neglected aspects of middle-class Black activism in the decades preceding the civil rights movement. It features a revolving cast of social workers, medical professionals, journalists, scholars, and lawyers whose social justice efforts included but also extended past racial uplift ideology and respectability politics. Adam Lee Cilli is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh, Bradford. He specializes in the social history of the United States from the late nineteenth through the mid twentieth centuries. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Urban History and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. |
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