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The color of work : the struggle for civil rights in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1980 /
Using previously-untapped legal records and oral history interviews, this work provides an in-depth account of the struggle to integrate the southern paper mills in the United States over the period 1945-80. Jobs were strictly segregated till the 1960s with black workers in menial positions.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2001]
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| Colección: | Civil rights and social justice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Irretrievably mired in undesirable jobs: the color of work before the 1960s
- There was nothing for us but labor work: black workers in the paper industry, 1945-1965
- All this come through the Civil Rights Act: federal mandates and black activism in the Southern paper industry, 1964-1980
- We want our people to have an opportunity to advance: the civil rights activism of segregated black local unions, 1956-1970
- Segregated locals and the turn to the federal government
- Just punching in and going into work, you were separate: segregated facilities in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1970
- The Jackson memorandum and the limits of federal intervention
- Like Armageddon: the reaction of white workers to job integration
- The St. Joe saga.