num_pages: 400
description: 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.
language: English
title: Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
titlecomplete: Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (Working Class in American History)
genres: History, African American, American History, Labor, Race, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 35
places: Memphis, Tennessee
series: The Working Class in American History
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: James A. Rawley Prize, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Charles S. Sydnor Award
publisher: University of Illinois Press