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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.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 324 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Class, culture
Class, culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Missouri -- Saint Louis.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans.
African Americans -- Missouri -- Saint Louis -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social conditions.
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- 20th century.
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Race relations.
Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lang, Clarence. Grassroots at the gateway. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009018644
ISBN 9780472026548 (electronic book)
0472026542 (electronic book)
0472050656 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0472070657 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780472050659 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780472070657 (cloth ; alkaline paper)