For Jobs and Freedom is the first authoritative treatment in more than two decades of the race and labor movement, and Zieger's comprehensive and authoritative book will be standard reading on the subject for years to come.
Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983), 421. 24. ... 1917, and Congressman John T. Watkins to William B. Wilson, July 14, 1917, in Black Workers in the Era of the Great Migration, reel 13. 44.
Robert J. Norrell, “Labor Trouble: George Wallace and Union Politics in Alabama,” in Organized Labor in the Twentieth-Century South, ed. Robert H. Zieger (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991), 251–55. 35. Ibid., 260. 36.
Whether as slaves or freedmen, the political and social status of African Americans has always been tied to their ability to participate in the nation's economy. Freedom in the post--Civil...
This volume documents Randolph's life and work through his own writings.
For Jobs and Freedom is the first authoritative treatment in more than two decades of the race and labor movement, and Zieger's comprehensive and authoritative book will be standard reading on the subject for years to come.
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Note from the Editors on the Text and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.