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Grassroots at the Gateway : Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Class : Culture SeriesPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472026548
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Grassroots at the GatewayDDC classification:
  • 305.5
LOC classification:
  • F474
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement.
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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.

Offers a new conceptualization of black workingclass participation in the civil rights movement.

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