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9780252079993 Academic Inspection Copy

Eugene Kinckle Jones

The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940
  • ISBN-13: 9780252079993
  • Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
    Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
  • By Felix L. Armfield
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 16/03/2014
  • Format: Paperback 136 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Asian history [HBJF]
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A leading African American intellectual, Eugene Kinckle Jones (1885-1954) was instrumental in professionalizing black social work in America. Jones used his position was executive secretary of the National Urban League to work with social reformers advocating on behalf of African Americans and against racial discrimination. He also led the Urban League's efforts at campaigning for equal hiring practices and the inclusion of black workers in labor unions, and promoted the importance of vocational training and social work. Drawing on interviews with Jones' colleagues and associates, as well as recently opened family and Urban League archives, Felix L. Armfield blends biography with an in-depth discussion of the roles of black institutions and organizations. The result is a work that offers new details on the growth of African American communities, the evolution of African American life, and the role of black social workers in the years before the civil rights era.
''Armfield weaves a narrative that teases out two major strands: the first reats the life and times of Eugene Kinckle Jones, an African American progressive reformer and social worker (among many things); the second, the history of American social work and Jones's quest for the inclusion of African Americans in that profession.''--''Indiana Magazine of History'' ''A useful book that gives necessary attention to an undervalued figure. A worthwhile study of Jones and a valuable contribution to the history of the social work movement.''--''Social Service Review''
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