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Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South /

Main Author: Korstad, Robert Rodgers.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Tobacco workers > Labor unions > 20th century. > Southern States > History
Civil rights movements > History > 20th century. > Southern States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Civil rights movements.
Tobacco workers > Labor unions.
Southern States.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=101708
Table of Contents:
  • Those Who Were Not Afraid
  • Industrial and Political Revolutions
  • Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Country Small Town Grown Big Town Rich, and Poor
  • R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company: A Moneymaking Place
  • Social Learning
  • Talking Union
  • A Dream Come True
  • Like Being Reconstructed
  • In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
  • There Was Nothing in the City That Didn't Concern the Tobacco Union
  • It Wasn't Just Wages We Wanted, but Freedom
  • Fighting the Fire
  • Jim Crow Must Go
  • If You Beat the White Man at One Trick, He Will Try Another
  • Trust the Bridge That Carried Us Over.

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