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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815009003321

Autore

Lang Clarence

Titolo

Grassroots at the gateway : class politics and Black freedom struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 / / Clarence Lang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2009

ISBN

1-282-94030-9

9786612940309

0-472-02654-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Class, culture

Disciplina

305.5/6208996073077866

Soggetti

African Americans - Civil rights - Missouri - Saint Louis - History - 20th century

African Americans - Missouri - Saint Louis - History - 20th century

African Americans - Missouri - Saint Louis - Social conditions - 20th century

Saint Louis (Mo.) History 20th century

Saint Louis (Mo.) Race relations

Saint Louis (Mo.) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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, 1968-75Conclusion; Notes; Index; Illustrations

Sommario/riassunto

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