"A dazzling gem of socialist scholarship! Le Blanc and Yates conjoin meticulous research with sensitive analysis to deliver a superb political narrative graphically recreating a significant slice of lost history."--Alan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan "An excellent and long overdue chronicle of the Freedom Budget. Their attention to new and striking details results in a wondrous story told with compassion and clarity."--Angela D. Dillard, author of Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit "Exciting and unique, especially for students, activists, and scholars. An important challenge to the neoliberal agenda."--Immanuel Ness, Editor, WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society "In this book, Paul Le Blanc and Michael D.

Yates rescue the & Freedom Budget proposed by civil rights leaders in the 1960s from an unjustified historical obscurity. And they rightly see in the Freedom Budget a model of the kind of program that could unite American progressives and help restore national prosperity and democracy in the age of Occupy"--Maurice Isserman, author of The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington "Shows that the political development and leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, and others, were inextricably bound up with socialist organizations and ideas. These heroes of American history were fighting for much more than & civil rightsthey were fighting to fundamentally change American social and economic life."--Brian Jones, educator, actor, and activist.