Black belts insult us : equal housing and contested liberalism during the depression -- Poor but not poverty stricken : equal employment campaigns in 1930s Chicago -- Housing the soldiers of the home front -- The greatest Negro victory since the Civil War : fair employment policy during World War II -- From foxholes to ratholes : struggles for postwar housing -- Picket lines were the front lines for democracy : Black veterans' labor activism in post-World War II Chicago.