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Author Rubio, Philip F

Title There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality / Philip F. Rubio
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 446 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Contents Introduction -- Who worked at the post office (before 1940)? -- Fighting Jim Crow at home during World War II (1940-1946) -- Black-led movement in the early Cold War (1946-1950) -- Fighting Jim Crow and McCarthyism (1947-1954) -- Collapsing Jim Crow postal unionism in the 1950s (1954-1960) -- Interesting convergences in the early sixties post office (1960-1963) -- Black women in the 1960s post office and postal unions (1960-1969) -- Civil rights postal unionism (1963-1966) -- Prelude to a strike (1966-1970) -- The great postal wildcat strike of 1970 -- Post-strike (1970-1971) -- Epilogue -- Conclusion
Summary Rubio, a former postal worker, brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Having fought their way into postal positions and unions, black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--became a critical force for social change. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the U.S
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-432) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.)
SUBJECT National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.) fast
Subject African American postal service employees -- History
African Americans -- Employment -- History
Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History
Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American postal service employees
African Americans -- Employment
Discrimination in employment
Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780807895733
0807895733
9781469604053
1469604051