| Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers Contributor(s): Honey, Michael K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252063058 ISBN-13: 9780252063053 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $36.63 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1993 Annotation: This book chronicles the rarely studied southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the cold war, using the strategically located river city of Memphis as a case study. Honey analyzes the economic basis of segregation and the denial of fundamental human rights and civil liberties it entailed. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Labor & Industrial Relations - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Dewey: 331.639 |
| LCCN: 92028735 |
| Series: Working Class in American History |
| Physical Information: 0.83" H x 5.98" W x 9.04" (1.17 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |