ISBN:
0822353474
,
0822353598
,
9780822353478
,
9780822353591
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 375 p)
,
ill.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Radical perspectives
Series Statement:
Radical Perspectives Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version New deal for all?
DDC:
305.8009752/6
Keywords:
New Deal, 1933-1939
;
Labor History 20th century
;
African Americans History 20th century
;
New Deal, 1933-1939 -- Maryland -- Baltimore
;
African Americans -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century
;
Labor -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century
;
Baltimore (Md.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
;
Electronic books
;
Baltimore (Md.) Race relations 20th century
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In A New Deal for All? Andor Skotnes examines the interrelationships between the Black freedom movement and the workers' movement in Baltimore and Maryland during the Great Depression and the early years of the Second World War. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle, he argues that such ""border state"" movements helped resuscitate and transform the national freedom and labor struggles
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; About the Series; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. The Context; 1. Communities, Culture, and Traditions of Opposition; II. Emergences, 1930-1934; 2. Disrupting the Calm: The Communist Party in Baltimore, 1930-1933; 3. The City-Wide Young People's Forum, 1931-1933; 4. Garment Workers, Socialists, and the People's Unemployment League, 1932-1934; III. Transitions, 1933-1936; 5. The Lynching of George Armwood, 1933; 6. Buy Where You Can Work, 1933-1934; 7. The Baltimore Soviet, the ACW, and the PUL, 1933-1935; 8. Seeking Directions, 1934-1936
Description / Table of Contents:
IV. Risings, 1936-19419. The CIO and the First Wave, 1936-1937; 10. The CIO, the AFL, and the Baltimore Workers' Movement: The Second Wave, 1938-1941; 11. The New Baltimore NAACP and the Metropolitan Region, 1936-1941; 12. The New Baltimore NAACP, the State, and the Country, 1936-1941; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Communities, culture, and traditions of opposition -- Disrupting the calm : the Communist Party in Baltimore, 1930-1933 -- The city-wide Young People's Forum, 1931-1933 -- Garment workers, socialists, and The People's Unemployment League, late 1932-1934 -- The lynching of George Armwood, late 1933 -- Buy where you can work, 1933-1934 -- The Baltimore Soviet, the ACW, and the PUL, late 1933-1935 -- Seeking directions, 1934-1936 -- The CIO and the first wave, 1936-1937 -- The CIO, the AFL, and the second wave, 1938-1941 -- The new Baltimore NAACP and the metropolitan region, 1936-1941 -- The new Baltimore NAACP and the state and the country, 1936-1941.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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