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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. Winner of the Charles ...

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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers 1993, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252063053

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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers 1993, University of Illinois Press, Urbana-Champaign, IL

ISBN-13: 9780252020001

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