Title The color of work : the struggle for civil rights in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1980 / Timothy J. Minchin

Published Chapel Hill ; London : The University of North Carolina Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 277 pages) : illustrations Series HeinOnline civil rights and social justice Civil rights and social justice Contents Irretrievably mired in undesirable jobs: the color of work before the 1960s -- There was nothing for us but labor work: black workers in the paper industry, 1945-1965 -- All this come through the Civil Rights Act: federal mandates and black activism in the Southern paper industry, 1964-1980 -- We want our people to have an opportunity to advance: the civil rights activism of segregated black local unions, 1956-1970 -- Segregated locals and the turn to the federal government -- Just punching in and going into work, you were separate: segregated facilities in the Southern paper industry, 1945-1970 -- The Jackson memorandum and the limits of federal intervention -- Like Armageddon: the reaction of white workers to job integration -- The St. Joe saga Summary Using previously-untapped legal records and oral history interviews, this work provides an in-depth account of the struggle to integrate the southern paper mills in the United States over the period 1945-80. Jobs were strictly segregated till the 1960s with black workers in menial positions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-265) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed July 6, 2021) Subject Discrimination in employment -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Paper industry workers -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century Race discrimination -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century African American labor union members -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. African American labor union members Discrimination in employment Paper industry workers Race discrimination Papierindustrie Rassendiskriminierung Arbeitsbedingungen Bürgerrechtsbewegung Southern States USA -- Südstaaten Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 00068312 ISBN 0807875481 9780807875483

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