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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

Michael K. Honey
3.9/5 ( ratings)
Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise.
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Release
March 01, 1993
ISBN
0252063058
ISBN 13
9780252063053

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

Michael K. Honey
3.9/5 ( ratings)
Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study, Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights chronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's demise.
Language
English
Pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Release
March 01, 1993
ISBN
0252063058
ISBN 13
9780252063053

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