Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers

Michael K. Honey

ISBN 10: 0252063058 / ISBN 13: 9780252063053

Published by University of Illinois Press, 1993

About this Item

Series: The Working Class in American History. Num Pages: 400 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 531. . 1993. First Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252063058
• ISBN 13: 9780252063053
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

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.

Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994.  Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994.  Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history.

About the Author

Michael K. Honey is the Fred T. and Dorothy G. Haley Professor of the Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma. His books include Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign and the award-winning Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle.