Download or read book Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta written by Karen Jane Ferguson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferguson looks at how black reformers in Atlanta used New Deal federal programs to advance their struggle for citizenship--and how they used their authority as agents of the state to impose a bourgeois "politics of respectability" that effectively stratified the black community.