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Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968
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 allyin…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-3125-9
- EAN: 9781501731259
- Produktnummer: 28011454
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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