TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lang,Clarence
TI  - Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75
T2  - Class : Culture Series
SN  - 9780472026548
AV  - F474 
U1  - 305.5 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Ann Arbor
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - African Americans - Missouri - Saint Louis - History - 20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. A Black Working-Class Public, 1932-39 -- 2. The St. Louis March on Washington and the Historic Bloc for "Double Victory," 1942-45 -- 3. Black Working-Class Demobilization and Liberal Interracialism, 1946-54 -- 4. Grassroots Renewal and the "Heroic" Period, 1956-61 -- 5. Black Freedom at the Crossroads of Automation and De Facto Racism, 1962-64 -- 6. The Jefferson Bank Boycott and the "General Strike" against Racism, 1963-64 -- 7. "What Do We Want?": Black Power and the Growing Contradictions of Class, 1965-71 -- 8. Broken Bloc: "Law and Order," the New Right, and Racial Uplift Redux, 1968-75 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Illustrations
N2  - Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement
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ER  -