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

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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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Main Author: Draper, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Labor unions.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Civil rights.
Race relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Droits > États-Unis (Sud)
Syndicats > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Labor unions > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > Southern States.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Southern States > Race relations.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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