In A New Deal for All?, Andor Skotnes examines the interrelationships between the Black freedom movement and the workers’ movement in Baltimore and in Maryland during the Great Depression and the early years of World War II. Adding to the growing body of scholarship on the long civil rights struggle, he argues that these “border state” movements helped to resuscitate and transform national freedom and labor struggles. In the wake of the Crash of 1929, the freedom and workers’ movements had to rebuild themselves, often in new forms. In the early 1930s with their deepening commitments to antiracism, both communists and socialists in Baltimore launched a number of racially-integrated unemployment, workers rights, and social justice initiatives. An organization of radicalized African American youth, the City-Wide Young People’s Forum, emerged in the Black community and became involved in mass educational, anti-lynching, and “Buy Where You Can Work” campaigns, often in multiracial alliances with other progressives. During the later 1930s, the movements of Baltimore merged into new and renewed national organizations, especially the CIO and the NAACP, and undertook mass regional activism. While this collaboration declined after the war, Skotnes shows that the earlier cooperative efforts greatly shaped national freedom