Behind the Backlash
Subtitle: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780807827642
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Ethnic studies; Social classes; Social history; Urban communities; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; History: American; Baltimore; Working class whites; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Race relations; Maryland; Anthropology - Cultural; Discrimination & Racism; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / State & Local; Attitudes; Public Policy - General; Baltimore (Md.); Political activity
First sentence: In early 1944 John Cater submitted some verse written by coworkers at Baltimore's booming Westinghouse defense plant to the Baltimore Evening Sun.