Civil Rights Unionism
Subtitle: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780807854549
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Civil rights & citizenship; Labour economics; Racism & racial discrimination; Tobacco industry; Trade unions; Work & labour; Second World War, 1939-1945; Labor & Industrial Relations - Unions; Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers Union of America; Tobacco workers; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; North Carolina; Labor unions; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Social Science / African-American Studies; Southern States; Labor; 20th century; Civil rights movements; History
First sentence: At the dawn on June 17, 1943, the haze that has developed during the cool early morning hours slowly begins to burn away.