Chapter 3. Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface to the 2026 Paperback Edition ix
4. Figures xix
5. Introduction: Liberalism, Civil Rights, and Black Nationalism in the Urban North 1
6. Part I. Race, Rights, and Postwar Liberalism
7. Chapter 1. Civil Rights Liberalism in Philadelphia 13
8. Chapter 2. The Other Philadelphia Story 48
9. Part II. A Northern Protest Movement
10. Chapter 3. Don’t Buy Where You Can’t Work 83
11. Chapter 4. A False Democracy 120
12. Chapter 5. Black Power and the Organizing Tradition 180
13. Part III. Black Power in the Postindustrial City
14. Chapter 6. Community Control of the Schools 223
15. Chapter 7. The Gender Politics of Movement Leadership 258
16. Chapter 8. From Protest to Politics 295
17. Conclusion 328
18. Notes 331
19. Index 405
20. Acknowledgments 415