Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
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- ISBN 9780252074936
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2007
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Horace Huntley and David Montgomery curate a collection of annotated oral interviews of black workers who served on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham, Alabama. As the interviewees recount their struggles against discrimination, they show how collective action--whether through unions, the Movement, or networks of workplace activists--sought to gain access to better jobs, municipal services, housing, and less restrictive voter registration.
Powerful and honest, Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham draws on work by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to offer readers vivid eyewitness accounts of American history in the making.
Horace Huntley is a retired professor of history from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, and the director of the Oral History Project and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. David Montgomery (1927–2011) was a professor emeritus of history at Yale and the author of The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925 and other books.
