Victory at Home Manpower and Race in the American South During World War II

Name: Victory at Home Manpower and Race in the American South During World War II
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ISBN: 9780820324432

ISBN-10: 0820324434

ISBN-13: 9780820324432

Edition: 2003

Authors: Charles D. Chamberlain, Douglas Flamming, Philip Scranton

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 1/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.76" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "Is This America?"



Tents, Trailers, and Shack Towns: Mobilizing the Southern Home Front, 1939-1942



"Empty Sermons": Race and Economic Mobility on the Southern Home Front, 1940-1942



"On the Train and Gone": Worker Mobility in the Cotton Belt, 1941-1945



The Segregation Frontier: African American Migrant War Workers in the Pacific West, 1941-1945



"We're Not Here to Start a Social Revolution": Southern Black Workers Define Equality, 1943-1945



"The South Needs the Negro": Demobilization and Economic Equality in the South, 1945-1948


Epilogue: "A Virtual Revolution in Negro Leadership"


Notes


Bibliography


Index