Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis (Civil Rights and Struggle)
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 081316883X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-06 |
| 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. 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. Over these decades, many African American citizens in the region found themselves struggling financially and fighting for access to profitable jobs and suitable working conditions. Author Keona K. By illustrating that their politics played an important role in defining urban political agendas, her work sheds light on an unexplo
Keona K. Ervin is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri.
Williams, author of Concrete Demands: The Search for Black Power in the 20th Century. "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 Grass