INTRODUCTION

The shift during the 1940s from American public concern with class to concern with race has become a commonplace in American historiography. Alan Brinkley has written that World War II

  was a significant moment in the shift of American liberalism from a 
   preoccupation with "reform" (with a set of essentially class-based 
   issues centered around confronting the problem of monopoly and 
   economic disorder) and toward a preoccupation with "rights" (a 
   commitment to the liberties and entitlements of individuals and thus 
   to the liberation of oppressed people and groups). (1) 

Gary Gerstle has come to a similar conclusion, observing a "seismic" shift ...

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