Groping Toward Democracy : African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Vice Lords, Rousters, and Public School Men and Women: The Cultural Inheritance of an Organizing Community -- Chapter Two: "Democratizing the City, Instead of Just a City Beautiful" : Segregation, City Planning, and the Roots of Interracial Organizing -- Chapter Three: "That Movement Which Is Active in Making Communities Feel That the Negro Is Part and Parcel of Society as a Whole" : Social Work, Community Organization, and the Genesis of a Civil Rights Agenda -- Chapter Four: Teamwork for a Better St. Louis: The Framework of a Social Welfare Organizing Community -- Chapter Five: In the White Light of Critical Public Opinion: Health Care, Education, and the Manipulation of Public Culture -- Chapter Six: Not Ice Cream and Cake . . . Must Be Something Deeper: The Neighborhood Club and Block Unit Movement -- Epilogue: "Negroes Are . . . Disturbed These Days and Fighting for Everything" -- Notes -- Index.

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