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Conflict of Interests : Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968 /

On the basis of extensive archival research, Alan Draper illuminates the role organized labor played in the southern civil rights movement. He documents the substantial support the AFL-CIO and its southern state councils gave to the struggle for black equality, suggesting that labor's political...

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Autor principal: Draper, Alan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Chapter 1. Labor and the Brown Decision
  • Chapter 2. Meeting the Challenge of Massive Resistance in Virginia and Arkansas
  • Chapter 3. Two Steps Forward: Labor Education and the Desegregation of Union Conventions in the South
  • Chapter 4. In Search of Realignment
  • Chapter 5. Fighting the Good Fight in Alabama
  • Chapter 6. Claude Ramsay, the Mississippi AFL-CIO, and the Civil Rights Movement
  • Conclusion. An American Dilemma
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR