Black workers remember
Subtitle: an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle
By: Michael Keith Honey
Series: George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
Subjects: African Americans -- Employment -- History -- Sources; Labor movement -- United States -- History -- Sources; African American labor union members -- History -- Sources; Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- Sources; African Americans -- Interviews
Genres: Sources; Interviews
Description: "The labor of black workers has been crucial to economic development in the United States. Yet because of racism and segregation, their contribution remains largely unknown. This work tells the hidden history of African American workers in their own words from the 1930s to the present. It provides first-hand accounts of the experiences of black southerners living under segregation in Memphis, Tennessee, the place where Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated during a strike by black sanitation workers.

Eloquent and personal, these oral histories comprise a unique primary source and provide a new way of understanding the black labor experience during the industrial era. Together, the stories demonstrate how black workers resisted apartheid in American industry and underscore the active role of black working people in history."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-390) and index