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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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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