TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract of the Dissertation ii
Acknowledgements iv
List of Tables viii
CHAPTER 1 Introduction 1
SECTION I-BALTIMORE: HISTORICAL STRUCTURES, 1930 10
CHAPTER 2 The Baltimore Metropolitan Region 11
CHAPTER 3 Ethnicity and Race 35
CHAPTER 4 The Baltimore Working Class 84
SECTION II-GROWTH FROM THE GRASSROOTS, 1930-1934 132
CHAPTER 5 Disrupting the Calm: the Communist Party in
Baltimore, 1930-1933 133
CHAPTER 6 The City-Wide Young People's Forum, 1931-1933 180
CHAPTER 7 The Buy Where You Can Work Campaign, 1933 211
CHAPTER 8 The Socialist Party and the People's Unemployment
League, 1933-34 238
SECTION HI-TRANSITIONS AND POSSIBILITIES, 1934-1935 277
CHAPTER 9 The Baltimore Soviet, 1934 279
CHAPTER 10 Intertwinings: The Black Freedom Movement,
White Progressives, and Radical Movements,
Late 1933-1934 302
CHAPTER 11 Convergences and Divergences, Late 1933-1935 344
SECTION 1V-MODERN FOUNDATIONS, LATE-1935 TO 1940 379
CHAPTER 12 The Re-emergence of the Baltimore NAACP, 1935-1940 381
CHAPTER 13 The C.I.O. and the Renewal of the Baltimore Workers'
Movement, 1936-1939 429
Endnotes 476
Vita 534
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