Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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| Series: | George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=41902 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Black history as labor history
- Introduction: the power of remembering
- 1. Segregation, racial violence, and Black workers. Fannie Henderson witnesses southern lynch law. William Glover recounts his frame-up by the Memphis police. Longshore leader Thomas Watkins escapes assassination
- 2. From country to city: Jim Crow at work. Hillie and Laura Pride move to Memphis. Matthew Davis describes heavy industrial work. George Holloway remembers the Crump era. Clarence Coe recalls the pressures of White supremacy
- 3. Making a way out of no way: Black women factory workers. Irene Branch does double duty as a domestic and factory worker. Evelyn Bates reflects on her lifetime of factory work. Susie Wade tells how she built a life around work. Rebecca McKinley remembers the strike at Memphis Furniture Company
- Interlude: not what we seem
- 4. Freedom struggles at the point of production. Clarence Coe fights for equality. Lonnie Roland and other Black workers implement the Brown decision on the factory floor. George Holloway's struggle against White worker racism
- 5. Organizing and surviving in the Cold War. Leroy Clark follows the pragmatic road to survival in the Jim Crow south. Leroy Boyd battles White supremacy in the era of the red scare
- Interlude: arts of resistance
- 6. Civil rights unionism. Leroy Boyd tells how Black workers used the movement for civil rights to revive local. 19. Factory worker Matthew Davis becomes a community leader. Edward Lindsey recalls Black union politics. Alzada and Leroy Clark fight for unionism and civil rights. Alzada Clark organizes Black women workers in Mississippi
- 7. "I am a man": unionism and the Black working poor. Taylor Rogers relives the Memphis sanitation strike. James Robinson describes the worst job he ever had. Leroy Boyd and Clarence Coe recall a strike and the death of Martin Luther King. William Lucy reflects on the strike's meaning and outcome
- 8. The fate of the Black working class: the global economy, racism, and union organizing. Confronting deindustrialization. Ida Leachman tells how her union continues to organize low-wage workers. George Holloway and Clarence Coe reflect on the importance of unions and the struggle against racism
- Epilogue: scars of memory.