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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lang, Clarence.

Series:

Class, culture.

Class, culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

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.).

Saint Louis (Mo.)--Race relations.

Saint Louis (Mo.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-94030-9

9786612940309

0-472-02654-2

OCLC:

728836409