Title: Hiring the Black worker : the racial integration of the Southern textile industry, 1960-1980 /
Authors: Minchin, Timothy J.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Discrimination in employment Southern States History; Textile workers Southern States History; Race discrimination Southern States History; African American labor union members Southern States History
Abstract: Provides a study of the struggle for integration of the southern textile industry in the wake of the mid-60s enactment of civil rights legislation.
Contents: There were no Blacks running the machines: Black employment in the southern textile industry before 1964 -- The government brought about the real change: causes of the racial integration of the southern textile industry, 1964-1980 -- For quite obvious reasons, we do not want to fill these mills up with Negroes: the attitudes of textile executives to Black employment -- I felt myself as a pioneer: the experiences of the first Black production workers -- The only ones that got a promotion was a White man: the discriminatory treatment of Black men in the textile industry, 1964-1980 --Getting out of the White man's kitchen: African American women and the racial integration of the southern textile industry -- Community activism and litigation: the role of civil rights organizations in racial integration of the southern textile industry -- A mixed blessing: the role of labor unions in the racial integration of the southern textile industry.