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

by Andor Skotnes

Book Overview

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. In the wake of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353598
• ISBN13: 9780822353591
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"