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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 | |