ISBN10: 0520232054, ISBN13: 9780520232051, [publisher: Univ of California Pr] Softcover 423 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]

University of California Press, Date: 2002-07. Paperback. Good. 2002. University of California Press ISBN 0520232054 9780520232051 [US]

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ISBN10: 0520232054, ISBN13: 9780520232051, [publisher: University of California Press] Softcover 402 pages. Illustrated. The labour of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. Spanning the 1930s to the present, Black Workers Remember tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own words. It provides striking firsthand accounts of the experiences of black southerners living under segregation in Memphis, Tennessee. Eloquent and personal, these oral histories comprise a unique primary source and provide a new way of understanding the black labor experience during the industrial era. Together, the stories demonstrate how black workers resisted racial apartheid in American industry and underscore the active role of black working people in history. The individual stories are arranged thematically in chapters on labor organizing, Jim Crow in the workplace, police brutality, white union racism, and civil rights struggles. Taken together, the stories ask us to rethink the conventional understanding of the civil rights movement as one led by young people and preachers in the 1950s and 1960s. Instead, we see the freedom struggle as the product of generations of people, including workers who organized unions, resisted Jim Crow at work, and built up their families, churches, and communities. The collection also reveals the devastating impact ...