By Karen Ferguson
Black reformers, frequently operating inside of federal firms as social staff and directors, observed the inclusion of African americans in New Deal social welfare courses as an opportunity to arrange black Atlantans to take their rightful position within the political and social mainstream. additionally they labored to construct a constituency they can mobilize for civil rights, within the approach facilitating a shift from elite reform to the mass mobilization that marked the postwar black freedom fight.
Although those reformers' efforts have been a necessary prelude to civil rights activism, Ferguson argues that additionally they had lasting detrimental repercussions, embedded as they have been within the politics of respectability. by way of trying to impose bourgeois behavioral criteria at the black neighborhood, elite reformers stratified it into these they made up our minds deserving to take part in federal social welfare courses and people they consigned to stay on the margins of civic life.
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