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Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

by Robert R. Korstad
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South

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Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy.

Galvanized by the emergence of the CIO, African Americans took the lead in a campaign that saw a strong labor movement and the reenfranchisement of the southern poor as keys to reforming the South--and a reformed South as central to the survival and expansion of the New Deal. In the window of opportunity opened by World War II, they blurred the boundaries between home and work as they linked civil rights and labor rights in a bid for justice at work and in the public sphere.

But civil rights unionism foundered in the maelstrom of the Cold War. Its defeat undermined later efforts by civil rights activists to raise issues of economic equality to the moral high ground occupied by the fight against legalized segregation and, Korstad contends, constrains the prospects for justice and democracy today.

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"Well-researched and well-written . . . A major contribution to the current scholarship on labor history."

-- American Communist History

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"The breadth of Korstad's work is impressive and so is his ability to incorporate the broader historical context into the narrative of the Local [22]. . . . One of the many significant aspects of Korstad's book is that he gives voice to the neglected history of African American women in the trade union movement."

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Recovering an important moment in early civil rights activism, Korstad chronicles the rise and fall of the union that represented thousands of African American tobacco factory workers in Winston-Salem, N.C., in the first half of the 20th century.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-522) and index.

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ISBN:
9780807854549
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
05/26/2003
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Language:
English
Pages:
576
Height:
1.37IN
Width:
6.42IN
LCCN:
2002152319
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2003
Series Volume:
576
UPC Code:
2800807854541
Author:
Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (FTA-CIO) Food
Author:
Robert Rodgers Korstad
Author:
Robert R. Korstad
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Robert Rodg Korstad
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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anticommunists
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Paul Robes
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communist activists
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Local 22
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Ruby Jones
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States.
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ew Deal
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Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations (FTA-CIO)
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Winston-salem, north carolina
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Civil rights movement.
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Tobacco workers - Labor unions -
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Paul Robeson
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Phillip Murray
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Walter White
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Henry Wallace
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Moranda Smith
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white supremacy
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Tobacco workers
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the New Deal
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Politics-Labor
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Civil rights movements
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mass production industries
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Donald Henderson
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R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
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the N
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History

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