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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
University of Illinois Press, 1993 Cloth: 978-0-252-02000-1 | Paper: 978-0-252-06305-3 | eISBN: 978-0-252-05432-7 Library of Congress Classification HD6519.M45H66 1993 Dewey Decimal Classification 331.639607307682
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history. See other books on: African American labor union members | Labor movement | Labor unions | Memphis | Tennessee See other titles from University of Illinois Press |
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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
University of Illinois Press, 1993
Cloth: 978-0-252-02000-1
Paper: 978-0-252-06305-3
eISBN: 978-0-252-05432-7
Cloth: 978-0-252-02000-1
Paper: 978-0-252-06305-3
eISBN: 978-0-252-05432-7
Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise.
Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history.
Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
