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Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

Michael K. Honey

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 400

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Release: March 01, 1993

ISBN: 0252063058

ISBN 13: 9780252063053

Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

Michael K. Honey

3.9/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 400

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Release: March 01, 1993

ISBN: 0252063058

ISBN 13: 9780252063053

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