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| Synopsis and Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface: Black History as Labor History | |
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| Introduction: The Power of Remembering | |
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| Segregation, Racial Violence, and Black Workers | |
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| Fannie Henderson Witnesses Southern Lynch Law | |
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| William Glover Recounts His Frame-up by the Memphis Police | |
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| Longshore Leader Thomas Watkins Escapes Assassination | |
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| From Country to City: Jim Crow at Work | |
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| Hillie and Laura Pride Move to Memphis | |
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| Matthew Davis Describes Heavy Industrial Work | |
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| George Holloway Remembers the Crump Era | |
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| Clarence Coe Recalls the Pressures of White Supremacy | |
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| Making a Way Out of No Way: Black Women Factory Workers | |
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| Irene Branch Does Double Duty as a Domestic and Factory Worker | |
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| Evelyn Bates Reflects on Her Lifetime of Factory Work | |
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| Susie Wade Tells How She Built a Life around Work | |
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| Rebecca McKinley Remembers the Strike at Memphis Furniture Company | |
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| Interlude: Not What We Seem | |
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| Freedom Struggles at the Point of Production | |
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| Clarence Coe Fights for Equality | |
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| Lonnie Roland and other Black Workers Implement the Brown Decision on the Factory Floor | |
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| George Holloway's Struggle against White Worker Racism | |
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| Organizing and Surviving in the Cold War | |
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| Leroy Clark Follows the Pragmatic Road to Survival in the Jim Crow South | |
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| Leroy Boyd Battles White Supremacy in the Era of the Red Scare | |
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| Interlude: Arts of Resistance | |
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| Civil Rights Unionism | |
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| Leroy Boyd Tells How Black Workers Used the Movement for Civil Rights to Revive Local 19 | |
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| Factory Worker Matthew Davis Becomes a Community Leader | |
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| Edward Lindsey Recalls Black Union Politics | |
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| Alzada and Leroy Clark Fight for Unionism and Civil Rights | |
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| Alzada Clark Organizes Black Women Workers in Mississippi | |
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| "I Am a Man": Unionism and the Black Working Poor | |
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| Taylor Rogers Relives the Memphis Sanitation Strike | |
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| James Robinson Describes the Worst Job He Ever Had | |
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| Leroy Boyd and Clarence Coe Recall a Strike and the Death of Martin Luther King | |
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| William Lucy Reflects on the Strike's Meaning and Outcome | |
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| The Fate of the Black Working Class: The Global Economy, Racism, and Union Organizing | |
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| Confronting Deindustrialization | |
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| Ida Leachman Tells How Her Union Continues to Organize Low-Wage Workers | |
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| George Holloway and Clarence Coe Reflect on the Importance of Unions and the Struggle against Racism | |
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| Epilogue: Scars of Memory | |
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| References and Notes | |
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| Index | |