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Timothy J. Minchin

The Color of Work

The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980

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Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South's major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the struggle to integrate southern paper mills.Minchin describes how jobs in the southern paper industry were strictly segregated prior to the 1960s, with black workers confined to low-paying, menial positions. All work literally had a color: every job was racially designated a… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8078-4933-0
  • EAN: 9780807849330
  • Produktnummer: 1552039
  • Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 292 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.7 cm 474 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 474

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