The Black worker since the AFL-CIO merger, 1955-1980
"The final volume delves deeply into the relation between civil rights and labor during the 1950s and 1960s. A notable collection of speeches by civil rights leaders Vernon E. Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks at AFL-CIO conventions is also incl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
Temple University Press
2019©1984, 2019
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| Series: | The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "The final volume delves deeply into the relation between civil rights and labor during the 1950s and 1960s. A notable collection of speeches by civil rights leaders Vernon E. Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks at AFL-CIO conventions is also included. It concludes with documentation of the organizing efforts of Black and Brown hospital workers, an effort widely supported by the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement"--From foreword |
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| Item Description: | Reissued with foreword by Keona K. Ervin |
| Physical Description: | 589 pages |
| ISBN: | 0877221987 9780877221982 |