Lake Street dans les années 30 : un quartier noir de Chicago et la crise économique.

Abstract

For Blacks in Chicago the economic depression of 1929 began to show its signs as early as 1928. Concentrated in low wage employments they quickly found themselves replaced by their white counterparts or fired altogether. For those who lived in Lake Street, located on the West Side of the City, the depression gave the opportunity to renew their ties as a community, and redefined the meaning of self- help and responsibility to the community. In the same manner, it is in the depression era that a key structural change, one of the most important after emancipation, was to take place. For it is at that time that the gradual but slow conversion of African Americans from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party was to take place.