Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940 - Softcover

Armfield, Felix L.

9780252079993: Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910-1940

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025207999X ISBN 13: 9780252079993

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2014

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's 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.

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Book Description:

The biography of an important agent for black social change in the early twentieth century

About the Author:

Felix L. Armfield is a professor of history and social studies education at Buffalo State College and the author of Black Life in West Central Illinois.

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