Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer

by Wendell E. Pritchett

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From his role as Franklin Roosevelt'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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226684482

ISBN13:9780226684482

Release Date:October 2008

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:444 Pages

Weight:1.72 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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20th Century African-American & Black Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Ethnic & National Historical History Leaders & Notable People Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Political State & Local

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