Gateway to equality Black women and the struggle for economic justice in St. Louis
"St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of the Great Depression. For the next thirty years, the Gateway City continued to experience significant urban decline as its population swelled and the area's industries stagnated. Over these decades, many African American citizens in...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky
[2017]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37685661*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The labor of dignity : Black working-class women's organizing in the Gateway City
- We strike and win : food factory workers and working-class radicalism
- Their side of the case : domestic workers and New Deal labor reform
- The fight against economic slavery : clerks, youth, and gender in the don't buy where you can't work movement
- Riveting the sinews of democracy : defense workers and Double V
- Beneath our dignity : garment workers and the politics of interracial unionism
- Jobs and homes...freedom : working-class struggles against postwar urban inequality
- Conclusion: The legacies of Black working-class women's political leadership.
