E-book
The color of work : the struggle for civil rights in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1980
Record details
- ISBN: 9798890872494
- ISBN: 9780807875483
- ISBN: 0807875481
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2001]
- Copyright: ©2001
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Irretrievably mired in undesirable jobs: the color of work before the 1960s -- There was nothing for us but labor work: black workers in the paper industry, 1945-1965 -- All this come through the Civil Rights Act: federal mandates and black activism in the Southern paper industry, 1964-1980 -- We want our people to have an opportunity to advance: the civil rights activism of segregated black local unions, 1956-1970 -- Segregated locals and the turn to the federal government -- Just punching in and going into work, you were separate: segregated facilities in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1970 -- The Jackson memorandum and the limits of federal intervention -- Like Armageddon: the reaction of white workers to job integration -- The St. Joe saga. |
| Restrictions on Access Note: | Restrictions unspecified NLC staff and students only. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. |
| System Details Note: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Action Note: | digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve |
| Source of Description Note: | Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 6, 2021). |
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| Genre: | History |
