Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Ervin, Keona K.
Titre(s) : Gateway to equality [Texte imprimé] : Black women and the struggle for economic justice in St. Louis / Keona K. Ervin
Publication : Lexington (Ky.) : University Press of Kentucky, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (269 p.-[10] p. de pl.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
Lien à la collection : Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-250) and index
"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 the region found themselves struggling
financially and fighting for access to profitable jobs and suitable working conditions.
To combat ingrained racism, crippling levels of poverty, and sub-standard living conditions,
black women worked together to form a community-based culture of resistance-fighting
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. Keona K. Ervin explains that the conditions in twentieth-century St.
Louis were conducive to the rise of this movement since the city's economy was based
on industries that employed women, such as textiles and food processing. 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. This made it possible for women to emerge as visible and influential
leaders. In this study, Ervin presents a stunning account of the ways in which black
working-class women fused racial and economic justice. 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"--Provided by publisher
Sujet(s) : Noires américaines -- Conditions sociales -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Noires américaines -- Conditions économiques -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Justice sociale -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Femmes de la classe ouvrière -- Saint Louis (Mo., États-Unis) -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
305.488 96073 (23e éd.) = Femmes Afro-Américaines
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780813168838. - ISBN 081316883X. - ISBN 9780813169873 (erroné). - ISBN 9780813169866
(erroné). - ISBN 9780813177540. - ISBN 0813177545
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45770159r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45770159
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
