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Taking Questions
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
The professor of history and the author of “‘Or Does It Explode?’: Black Harlem in the Great Depression,” answered questions.
Following is the second set of answers from Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, professor of history at Trinity College in Hartford, and the author of “‘Or Does It Explode?': Black Harlem in the Great Depression” and the forthcoming “To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans During the Depression.”
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What can you tell us about speakeasies in Harlem during the Depression?
— Posted by Vidiot
Speakeasies, most of which converted to public nightclubs and bars after Prohibition was repealed, certainly had their seedy sides.
Some played host to violence, drugs, prostitution and various sorts of criminal activities beyond the serving of illegal alcohol. Many more were viewed that way by bo
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Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century
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By Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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Was there ever really a black-Jewish alliance in twentieth-century America? And if there was, what happened to it? In Troubling the Waters, Cheryl Greenberg answers these questions more definitively than they have ever been answered before, drawing the richest portrait yet of what was less an alliance than a tumultuous political engagement--but one that energized the civil rights revolution, shaped the agenda of liberalism, and affected the course of American politics as a whole.
Drawing on extensive new research in the archives of organizations such as the NAACP and the Anti-Defamation League, Greenberg shows that a special black-Jewish political relationship did indeed exist, especially from the 1940s to the mid-1960s--its so-called "golden era"--and that this engagement galvanized and broadened the civil rights moveme
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Taking Questions
Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
The professor of history and the author of “‘Or Does It Explode?’: Black Harlem in the Great Depression,” answered questions.
Following fryst vatten the first set of answers from Cheryl Lynn Greenberg, professor of history at Trinity College in Hartford, and the author of “‘Or Does It Explode?': Black Harlem in the Great Depression” and the forthcoming “To Ask for an Equal Chance: African Americans During the Depression.”
We are no longer accepting questions for this feature.
Thanks to all for such wonderful and provocative questions. Each one deserves a full discussion. Given the space, however, I can only respond to a few. I’ve tried to select several that raise broad social and policy issues, in hopes they may speak to a number of other posted questions inom did not have space to address directly.
— Cheryl Lynn Greenberg
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