The Color of Work
Subtitle: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780807826188
Subjects: Civil rights & citizenship; Forestry & related industries; Manufacturing industries; Racism & racial discrimination; Work & labour; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Manufacturing Industries (Economic Aspects); Southern States; Political Science; History - U.S.; Politics/International Relations; Central Southern states; Southeastern & South Atlantic states; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; United States - 20th Century; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Race discrimination; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; 20th century; Discrimination In Employment; History; Paper industry workers
First sentence: Across the South, African American men helped build many of the first paper mills in the region in the 1930s and 1940s, going to work in them when they were completed.