Groping toward Democracy: African American Social Welfare Reform in St. Louis, 1910-1949

Contents

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One Vice Lords, Rousters, and Public School Men and Women: The Cultural Inheritance of an Organizing Community Chapter Two “Democratizing the City, Instead of Just a City Beautiful”: Segregation, City Planning, and the Roots of Interracial Organizing Chapter Three “That Movement Which Is Active in Making Communities Feel That the Negro Is Part and Parcel of Society as a Whole”: Social Work, Community Organization, and the Genesis of a Civil Rights Agenda Chapter Four Teamwork for a Better St. Louis: The Framework of a Social Welfare Organizing Community ix xiii xvii 1 23 58 93 115 viii Contents Chapter Five In the White Light of Critical Public Opinion: Health Care, Education, and the Manipulation of Public Culture Chapter Six Not Ice Cream and Cake . . . Must Be Something Deeper: The Neighborhood Club and Block Unit Movement Epilogue: “Negroes Are . . . Disturbed These Days and Fighting for Everything” Notes Index 156 200 243 261 293 ...