Conflict of Interests : : Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954–1968 / / Alan Draper.
On the basis of extensive archival research, Alan Draper illuminates the role organized labor played in the southern civil rights movement. He documents the substantial support the AFL-CIO and its southern state councils gave to the struggle for black equality, suggesting that labor's political...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Labor and the Civil Rights Movement
- Chapter 1. Labor and the Brown Decision
- Chapter 2. Meeting the Challenge of Massive Resistance in Virginia and Arkansas
- Chapter 3. Two Steps Forward: Labor Education and the Desegregation of Union Conventions in the South
- Chapter 4. In Search of Realignment
- Chapter 5. Fighting the Good Fight in Alabama
- Chapter 6. Claude Ramsay, the Mississippi AFL-CIO, and the Civil Rights Movement
- Conclusion. An American Dilemma
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR