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African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality

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African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality

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English
Pages
446

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-432) and index.

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Chapel Hill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
331.6/396073
Library of Congress
HE6499 .R82 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiii, 446 p. :
Number of pages
446

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24521299M
Internet Archive
theresalwayswork00rubi
ISBN 10
0807833428, 0807859869
ISBN 13
9780807833421, 9780807859865
LCCN
2009049091
OCLC/WorldCat
441211718

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December 9, 2010 Created by ImportBot Imported from Library of Congress MARC record