Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.(Book review)

From: The Journal of Southern History | Date: May 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham. Edited by Horace Huntley and David Montgomery. Afterword by Odessa Woolfolk. The Working Class in American History. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, c. 2004. Pp. xiv, 244. $35.00, ISBN 0-252-02952-6.)

This collection of seventeen interviews with trade union activists in Birmingham, Alabama, offers precious insights into the relationship between labor and civil rights struggles. The personal stories told here bring out the bitter, frightening, and heroic details of the fight for equality waged by the ...

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