Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Clinton Jencks, Mine-Mill, and Biography as History
Part I. Years of Preparation: Roots of Radicalism
1. Growing Up Concerned: Childhood, Family, and the Formation of a Value System, 1918-1939
2. The World of Work and New Opportunities for Social Action: Living Faith, 1939-1945
Part II. Building for the Future: Envisioning a New World
3. Coming Home: Veterans Advocacy and Renewed Political Commitment
4. Mine-Mill and Social Change: Economic Progress, Mexican American Activism, and social Justice, 19
Part III. Cold War Unionism: Progressives on Defense
5. Mobilizing for Mass Action: Social and Political Initiatives, 1948-1950
6. The Moment of Decision: the Empire Zinc Strike, Grassroots Feminism, and Mexican American Liberat
7. Telling the Story: Salt of the Earth as a Medium of Communication
Illustrations follow page 130
Part IV. A Time of Peril: Public Exposure
8. Confronting Domestic Anti-Communism: The Jencks Case, Civil Liberties, and the Law, 1953-19547
9. The Web of Consequences: Life after Mine-Mill
Epilogue: A Reflection on the Committed Life
Notes
Bibliography
Index