New Deal for All? - Race and Class Struggles in Depression-Era Baltimore

Informationen zum Autor Andor Skotnes Klappentext Andor Skotnes is Professor of History at The Sage Colleges. Zusammenfassung Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle. Inhaltsverzeichnis About the Series vii Illustrations ix Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 3 I. The Context 1. Communities, Culture, and Traditions of Opposition 11 II. Emergences, 1930–1934 2. Disrupting the Calm: The Communist Party in Baltimore, 1930–1933 45 3. The City-Wide Young People's Forum, 1931–1933 69 4. Garment Workers, Socialists, and the People's Unemployment League, 1932–1934 92 III. Transitions, 1933–1936 5. The Lynching of George Armwood, 1933 119 6. Buy Where You Can Work, 1933–1934 140 7. The Baltimore Soviet, the ACW, and the PUL, 1933–1935 163 8. Seeking Directions, 1934–1936 187 IV. Risings, 1936–1941 9. The CIO and the First Wave, 1936–1937 215 10. The CIO, the AFL, and the Baltimore Workers' Movement: The Second Wave, 1938–1941 245 11. The New Baltimore NAACP and the Metropolitan Region, 1936–1941 269 12. The New Baltimore NAACP and the State and the Country, 1936–1941 290 Epilogue 313 Notes 319 Bibliography 353 Index 365

Product details

• Authors: Andor Skotnes
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2012
• EAN: 9780822353591
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5359-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories