Conflict of Interests : Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968 / Alan Draper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Draper, Alan, author.

Series:

Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations Series

Cornell Studies in Industrial and Labor Relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

AFL-CIO.

Labor unions--Southern States--History--20th century.

Labor unions.

African Americans--Civil rights--Southern States.

African Americans.

Civil rights movements--Southern States--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 234 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

On the basis of extensive archival research, Alan Draper illuminates the role organized labor played in the southern civil rights movement. He documents the substantial support the AFL-CIO and its southern state councils gave to the struggle for black equality, suggesting that labor's political leadership recognized an opportunity in the civil rights movement. Frustrated in their efforts to organize the South, labor leaders understood the potential of newly enfranchised blacks to challenge conservative southern Democrats.At the same time, white union members in the South were more interested in defending their racial privileges than in allying themselves with blacks. An explosive tension developed between labor's political leadership, desperate to create a party system in the South that included blacks, and a rank and file determined to preserve southern Democracy by excluding blacks. This book looks at the ways that tension was expressed and ultimately resolved within the southern labor movement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction Labor and the Civil Rights Movement

Chapter 1. Labor and the Brown Decision

Chapter 2. Meeting the Challenge of Massive Resistance in Virginia and Arkansas

Chapter 3. Two Steps Forward: Labor Education and the Desegregation of Union Conventions in the South

Chapter 4. In Search of Realignment

Chapter 5. Fighting the Good Fight in Alabama

Chapter 6. Claude Ramsay, the Mississippi AFL-CIO, and the Civil Rights Movement

Conclusion. An American Dilemma

Notes

Bibliography

Index

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501731259

1501731254

OCLC:

1080550363