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

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In A New Deal for All? Andor Skotnes examines the interrelationships between the Black freedom movement and the employees’ movement in Baltimore and Maryland All the way through the Great Depression and the early years of the Second World War. Adding to the growing body of scholarship at the long civil rights struggle, he argues that such “border state” movements helped resuscitate and develop into the national freedom and labor struggles. Within the wake of the Great Crash of 1929, the freedom and workers’ movements needed to rebuild themselves, continuously in new forms. Within the early 1930s, deepening commitments to antiracism led Communists and Socialists in Baltimore to launch racially integrated initiatives for workers’ rights, the unemployed, and social justice. An organization of radicalized African American youth, the City-Wide Young People’s Forum, emerged Within the Black community and became excited about mass educational, anti-lynching, and Buy Where You Can Work campaigns, continuously in multiracial alliances with other progressives. All the way through the later 1930s, the movements of Baltimore merged into new and renewed national organizations, especially the CIO and the NAACP, and built mass regional struggles. At the same time as this collaboration declined after the war, Skotnes shows that the in advance cooperative efforts greatly shaped national freedom campaigns to come—including the civil rights movement.

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