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Conflict of Interests : Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968

Summary: 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 leadership recognized an opportunity in the civil rights movement. Frustrated in their efforts to organize the South, labor leaders understood the potential of newly enfranchised blacks to challenge conservative southern Democrats.At the same time, white union members in the South were more interested in defending their racial privileges than in allying themselves with blacks. An explosive tension developed between labor's political leadership, desperate to create a party system in the South that included blacks, and a rank and file determined to preserve southern Democracy by excluding blacks. This book looks at the ways that tension was expressed and ultimately resolved within the southern labor movement.

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ISBN: 9780875463162
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ISBN: 0875463169
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ISBN: 9781501731259
ISBN: 1501731254
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Copyright: �1994

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Language Note:	In English.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019).