Civil rights unionism : tobacco workers and the struggle for democracy in the mid-twentieth-century South / Robert Rodgers Korstad.
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TextPublication details: Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, c2003.Description: xii, 556 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 0807827819 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807854549 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 331.88/17973/0975667 21
- HD 6515 .T6 K67 2003
- H.L.Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
- Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
- Philip Taft Labor History Award, 2004
- Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians, Co-winner, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-522) and index.
1 Those who were not afraid -- 2 Industrial and political revolutions -- 3 Winston-Salem North Carolina: country small town grown big town rich-and poor -- 4 R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company: a moneymaking place -- 5 Social learning -- 6 Talking union -- 7 A dream come true -- 8 Like being reconstructed -- 9 In dreams begin responsibilities -- 10 There was nothing in the city that didn't concern the tobacco union -- 11 It wasn't just wages we wanted, but freedom -- 12. Fighting the fire -- 13 Jim Crow must go -- 14 If you beat the white man at one trick, he will try another -- 15 Trust the bridge that carried us over -- Epilogue
"Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy. Galvanized by the emergence of the CIO, African Americans took the lead in a campaign that saw a strong labor movement and the reenfranchisement of the southern poor as keys to reforming the South—and a reformed South as central to the survival and expansion of the New Deal. In the window of opportunity opened by World War II, they blurred the boundaries between home and work as they linked civil rights and labor rights in a bid for justice at work and in the public sphere. But civil rights unionism foundered in the maelstrom of the Cold War. Its defeat undermined later efforts by civil rights activists to raise issues of economic equality to the moral high ground occupied by the fight against legalized segregation and, Korstad contends, constrains the prospects for justice and democracy today." - from back cover
H.L.Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
Charles S. Sydnor Award, Southern Historical Association, 2004
Philip Taft Labor History Award, 2004
Liberty Legacy Foundation Award, Organization of American Historians, Co-winner, 2004
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