Black workers' struggle for equality in Birmingham
By: edited by Horace Huntley and David Montgomery ; afterword by Odessa Woolfolk.
Contributors: Huntley, Horace, 1942-; Montgomery, David, 1927-
Series: The working class in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: African American labor union members -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- Interviews; African Americans -- Employment -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History
Genres: Interviews.
Description: "This long-awaited volume is the first set of annotated interviews of participants in the Civil Rights Movement undertaken by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The Birmingham region was the citadel of heavy industry in the South and a domain of ruthlessly enforced segregation. It also had a long history of both industrial and craft unions, and large numbers of black workers were active union members. Among them were the men and women whose oral histories appear in Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham.

They recount vividly their own experiences with sharecropping, migration to the city and adjacent mining towns, all-pervasive police brutality, and their tireless personal and collective efforts to improve their lives and those of their children."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Oral History Project / Horace Huntley; title: Introduction: union activists in industry and in the community / David Montgomery; title: Colonel Stone Johnson; title: Rev. Joseph Lewis Rogers; title: Lloyd Harper; title: Elias Hendricks Sr.; title: Rosa P. Washington; title: James Greene; title: Ludie Mae Martin; title: Harvey Lee Henley Jr.; title: Reuben Davis; title: Jerome "Buddy" Cooper; title: David P. Earle; title: George Price; title: Eula McGill; title: Mattie Collins Haywood; title: Jimmie Louis Warren; title: Asbury Howard Jr.; title: Luther McKinstry; title: Afterword / Odessa Woolfolk.