Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers by Michael K. Honey

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Widely praised upon publication and now considered a classic study,Southern Labor and Black Civil Rightschronicles the southern industrial union movement from the Great Depression to the Cold War, a history that created the context for the sanitation workers' strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to Memphis in April 1968. Michael K. Honey documents the dramatic labor battles and sometimes heroic activities of workers and organizers that helped to set the stage for segregation's show more demise.Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award, given by the Southern Historical Association, 1994. Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize given by the Organization of American Historians, 1994. Winner of the Herbert G. Gutman Award for an outstanding book in American social history. show less

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Michael K. Honey is a Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and other awards. A former southern civil liberties organizer, he teaches American history and is Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma.

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James A. Rawley Prize (Winner – 1994)

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Canonical title: Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
Original publication date: 1993
Important places: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Important events: African-American Civil Rights Movement ; Cold War
Disambiguation notice: Full title (1993): Southern labor and Black civil rights : organizing Memphis workers.

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