Crucible City.

CITY dwellers; NATIVE Americans; CIVIL rights movements; MASSACRES; SOCIAL conflict; SOLIDARITY; BLACK Lives Matter movement

A key strength of Johnson's work is his reminder that even as the Great Compromise of 1877 brought Reconstruction to a formal end in the South, class conflict threatened to tear the nation apart again - and as was the case in the Civil War era, St. Louis was at the forefront of this bitter struggle. BOOKS & the ARTS B&A BOOK ARTS CERTAIN CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES have developed a claim to fame for representing some vital aspect of America. Throughout its existence, Johnson argues, St. Louis has been a microcosm of America's long-standing compulsion to subvert its own high ideals for the sake of white supremacy and imperialism. The Workingmen's Party, Johnson writes, "was being led by the exigency of the moment and the logic of its own rhetoric toward a revolutionary alliance with the Black workers of St. Louis.". [Extracted from the article]

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