Black Workers Remember

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ISBN: 9780520232051 | 0520232054
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/2002

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A compelling collection of oral histories of black working-class men and women from Memphis. Covering the 1930s to the 1980s, they tell of struggles to unionize and to combat racism on the shop floor and in society at large. They also reveal the origins of the civil rights movement in the activities of black workers, from the Depression onward.

Synopsis and Acknowledgments

xiii

Preface: Black History as Labor History

xvii

Introduction: The Power of Remembering

(14)

Segregation, Racial Violence, and Black Workers

(28)

Fannie Henderson Witnesses Southern Lynch Law

(3)

William Glover Recounts His Frame-up by the Memphis Police

(6)

Longshore Leader Thomas Watkins Escapes Assassination

(14)

From Country to City: Jim Crow at Work

(43)

Hillie and Laura Pride Move to Memphis

(5)

Matthew Davis Describes Heavy Industrial Work

(5)

George Holloway Remembers the Crump Era

(13)

Clarence Coe Recalls the Pressures of White Supremacy

(14)

Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Women Factory Workers

(46)

Irene Branch Does Double Duty as a Domestic and Factory Worker

(6)

Evelyn Bates Reflects on Her Lifetime of Factory Work

(9)

Susie Wade Tells How She Built a Life around Work

108

(6)

Rebecca McKinley Remembers the Strike at Memphis Furniture Company

114

(18)

Interlude: Not What We Seem

123

(9)

Freedom Struggles at the Point of Production

132

(45)

Clarence Coe Fights for Equality

136

(14)

Lonnie Roland and other Black Workers Implement the Brown Decision on the Factory Floor

150

(4)

George Holloway's Struggle against White Worker Racism

154

(23)

Organizing and Surviving in the Cold War

177

(60)

Leroy Clark Follows the Pragmatic Road to Survival in the Jim Crow South

183

(11)

Leroy Boyd Battles White Supremacy in the Era of the Red Scare

194

(43)

Interlude: Arts of Resistance

213

(24)

Civil Rights Unionism

237

(49)

Leroy Boyd Tells How Black Workers Used the Movement for Civil Rights to Revive Local 19

241

(6)

Factory Worker Matthew Davis Becomes a Community Leader

247

(8)

Edward Lindsey Recalls Black Union Politics

255

(6)

Alzada and Leroy Clark Fight for Unionism and Civil Rights

261

(10)

Alzada Clark Organizes Black Women Workers in Mississippi

271

(15)

``I Am a Man'': Unionism and the Black Working Poor

286

(36)

Taylor Rogers Relives the Memphis Sanitation Strike

293

(9)

James Robinson Describes the Worst Job He Ever Had

302

(7)

Leroy Boyd and Clarence Coe Recall a Strike and the Death of Martin Luther King

309

(5)

William Lucy Reflects on the Strike's Meaning and Outcome

314

(8)

The Fate of the Black Working Class: The Global Economy, Racism, and Union Organizing

322

(47)

Confronting Deindustrialization

324

(11)

Ida Leachman Tells How Her Union Continues to Organize Low-Wage Workers

335

(21)

George Holloway and Clarence Coe Reflect on the Importance of Unions and the Struggle against Racism

356

(13)

Epilogue: Scars of Memory

369

(6)

References and Notes

375

(16)

Index

391

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