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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21

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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 - Kelly, Brian
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Brian Kelly's acclaimed look at the fault lines in the society of an Alabama city challenges the notion that white workers led the resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly focuses on the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to create racial divisions as a means of splitting the workforce, preventing unionization, and keeping wages the lowest ...

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Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 2001, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252069338

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