Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (Greater Cincinnati Bicentennial History Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252020006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 364 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Honey is a professor of African American and labor studies and American history at the University of Washington, Tacoma, and the author of two prize-winning books on labor and civil rights history. Michael K. He lives in Tacoma
. Honey analyzes the economic basis of segregation and the denial of fundamental human rights and civil liberties it entailed. From the Back Cover This book chronicles the rarely studied southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the cold war, using the strategically located river city of Memphis as a case study
John Bass said A Must for Anyone Interested in Memphis Working Class History. Michael Honey does a fantastic job in explaining the CIO's contribution to the Struggle for Civil Rights. The Left-Led CIO Unions, most of all FTA Local 19, prepared a cadre of African-American working class leaders in Memphis, who were, in fact, the precursors to those of the 1960s. A must fo. Best book about the working class South I have read. Can't understand how this country works if you don't see how racism has been used, especially to divide workers. Honey writes about a pivotal time in American history when the working class was organizing and had the potential to transform the South for workers and African-Americans. The lesso
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