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Author Lang, Clarence

Title Grassroots at the gateway : class politics and Black freedom struggle in St. Louis, 1936-75 / Clarence Lang
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Class, culture
Class, culture.
Contents A Black working-class public, 1932-39 -- The St. Louis March on Washington and the historic bloc for "double victory," 1942-45 -- Black working-class demobilization and liberal interracialism, 1946-54 -- Grassroots renewal and the "heroic" period, 1956-61 -- Black freedom at the crossroads of automation and de facto racism, 1962-64 -- The Jefferson Bank boycott and the "general strike" against racism, 1963-64 -- "What do we want?" : Black power and the growing contradictions of class, 1965-71 -- Broken bloc : "law and order," the New Right, and racial uplift redux, 1968-75
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
African Americans
African Americans -- Civil rights
African Americans -- Social conditions
Race relations
Social conditions
SUBJECT Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 20th century
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Race relations
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Subject Missouri -- Saint Louis
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009018644
ISBN 9780472026548
0472026542