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