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

"This is a theoretically sophisticated and thoroughly documented historical case study of the movements for African American liberation in St. Louis. Through detailed analysis of black working class mobilization from the depression years to the advent of Black Power, award-winning historian Cla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Michigan Press 2010.
Colección:Class, culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. A Black Working-Class Public, 19328211;39
  • 2. The St. Louis March on Washington and the Historic Bloc for 8220;Double Victory,8221; 19428211;45
  • 3. Black Working-Class Demobilization and Liberal Interracialism, 19468211;54
  • 4. Grassroots Renewal and the 8220;Heroic8221; Period, 19568211;61
  • 5. Black Freedom at the Crossroads of Automation and De Facto Racism, 19628211;64
  • 6. The Jefferson Bank Boycott and the 8220;General Strike8221; against Racism, 19638211;64
  • 7. 8220;What Do We Want?8221;: Black Power and the Growing Contradictions of Class, 19658211;71
  • 8. Broken Bloc: 8220;Law and Order,8221; the New Right, and Racial Uplift Redux, 19688211;75
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Illustrations.