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

by Clarence Lang

Book Overview

"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 Clarence Lang describes how the advances made in earlier decades were undermined by a black middle class agenda that focused on the narrow aims of black capitalists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472070657
• ISBN13: 9780472070657
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"