There's always work at the post office
Subtitle: African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality
By: Philip F. Rubio
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9780807833421; 9780807859865
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-432) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Who worked at the post office (before 1940)?; title: Fighting Jim Crow at home during World War II (1940-1946); title: Black-led movement in the early Cold War (1946-1950); title: Fighting Jim Crow and McCarthyism (1947-1954); title: Collapsing Jim Crow postal unionism in the 1950s (1954-1960); title: Interesting convergences in the early sixties post office (1960-1963); title: Black women in the 1960s post office and postal unions (1960-1969); title: Civil rights postal unionism (1963-1966); title: Prelude to a strike (1966-1970); title: The great postal wildcat strike of 1970; title: Post-strike (1970-1971); title: Epilogue; title: Conclusion.