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Left in the Midwest : St. Louis Progressive Activism in the 1960s and 1970s /

"The goal of this volume is to bundle together for contemporary audiences a set of illuminating scholarly contributions-both previously published and freshly written-that together explore the wide range of progressive activist movements that took root in a single Midwestern city during the 1960...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Looker, Benjamin, 1978- (Editor ), Izzo, Amanda L., 1977- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Activist legacies and collective memory : civil rights organizing in St. Louis as a multigenerational project / Heidi Ardizzone
  • The St. Louis Baby Tooth Survey and women's environmental activism / Luke Ritter
  • The gospel of the gay ghetto : Trinity Episcopal Church, the urban crisis, and the origins of queer activism in St. Louis / Ian Darnell
  • Black power on the ground : continuity and rupture in St. Louis / Clarence Lang
  • Surveillance and subversion of student activists, 1967-1970 : standoff in St. Louis / Nina Gilden Seavey
  • The saga of Howard Mechanic / Carl Boggs
  • "Whacking the elephant where it hurts" : the Veiled Prophet Organization, ACTION, and economic justice in St. Louis, 1965-1980 / Thomas M. Spencer
  • "The seed time of gay rights" : Rev. Carol Cureton, the Metropolitan Community Church, and gay St. Louis, 1969-1980 / Rodney Wilson
  • The limits of middle-class activism : neighborhood organizing in St. Louis / Susanne Cowan
  • "We were on a mission" : feminist activism in St. Louis in the 1960s and 1970s / Gretchen Arnold and Ilene Ordower
  • Is Ivory Perry an environmentalist (and does it matter)? / Rob Gioielli
  • "Save Homer G. Phillips and all public hospitals" : African American grassroots activism and the decline of municipal public healthcare in St. Louis / Ezelle Sanford III
  • "Together we can make a safe home" : space, violence, and lesbian organizing in 1970s St. Louis / Mary Maxfield
  • The time is now : mass struggle, collective defense, and the St. Louis Chapter of the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression / Keona K. Ervin.