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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
Michael K. Honey
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Description for Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
Paperback. Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Series
The Working Class in American History
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252063053
SKU
V9780252063053
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About Michael K. Honey
Michael K. Honey is the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma. His books include Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign and the award-winning Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle.
Reviews for Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
"Packs the emotive power of a zillion 'race' memoirs precisely because it is the story of what happened when black and white workers collectively challenged the powers-that-be in the meanest city in the South."
Robin D. G. Kelley, The Nation "A vitally important contribution to the scholarly debate about the relationship between class and race in American history."
Bruce Nelson, Journal of American History ... Read more
Robin D. G. Kelley, The Nation "A vitally important contribution to the scholarly debate about the relationship between class and race in American history."
Bruce Nelson, Journal of American History ... Read more