Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis (Civil Rights and Struggle)
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081316883X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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This made it possible for women to emerge as visible and influential leaders in both formal and informal capacities.In this impressive study, Ervin presents a stunning account of the ways in which black working-class women creatively fused racial and economic justice. Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. By illustrating that their politics played an important role in defining urban political agendas, her work sheds light on an unexplored aspect of community activism and illuminates the complexities of the overlapping civil rights and labor movements during the first half of the twentieth century.. As part of the Great Migration, black women migrated to the city at a higher rate than their male counterparts, and labor and black freedom movements relied less on a charismatic, male leadership model. Louis were uniquely conducive to the rise of this movement since the city's economy was based on light industries that employed women, such as textiles and food processing. To combat ingrained racism, crippling levels of poverty, and sub-standard living conditions, black women worked together to form a community-based culture of resistancefighting for employment, a living wage, dignity, representation, and political leadership.Gateway to Equality investigates black working-class women's struggle for economic justice from the rise of New Deal liberalism in the 1930s to the social upheavals of the 1960s. Ov
Keona K. Ervin is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri.
"In this masterful work, Keona Ervin makes a convincing case that African American working-class women's self-organization not only shaped black freedom movements and trade unionism but also embodied the larger possibilities for a democratic social contract for all. Gateway to Equality uses gender not only as a means of identifying the full scope of black women's work and activism, but also as a tool for interrogating the meanings of 'civil rights' and 'labor' themselves. In accomplishing this, Ervin pushes to the next level the study of black working-class community and struggle in St. Louis, Missouri and beyond."Clarence Lang, author of Grassroots at the Gateway: Class Politics and Black Freedom Struggle in St. Williams, author of Concrete Demands: The Search for Bl