Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer (repost)
Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer By Wendell E. Pritchett
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press 2008 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 0226684482 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press 2008 | 444 Pages | ISBN: 0226684482 | PDF | 2 MB
From his role as FDR’s “negro advisor” to his appointment, under Lyndon Johnson, as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This volume, the first biography of the first African American to hold a cabinet position in the federal government, rescues from obscurity the story of a man whose legacy continues to impact American race relations and the cities in which they largely play out.