Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968On the basis of extensive archival research, Alan Draper illuminates the role organized labor played in the southern civil rights movement. He documents the substantial support the AFL-CIO and its southern state councils gave to the struggle for black equality, suggesting that labor's political leadership recognized an opportunity in the civil rights movement. Frustrated in their efforts to organize the South, labor leaders understood the potential of newly enfranchised blacks to challenge conservative southern Democrats. |
Contents
Introduction Labor and the Civil Rights Movement | 3 |
Labor and the Brown Decision | 17 |
Meeting the Challenge of Massive | 41 |
Labor | 62 |
In Search of Realignment | 86 |
Fighting the Good Fight in Alabama | 107 |
Claude Ramsay the Mississippi AFLCIO | 122 |
Conclusion An American Dilemma | 161 |
Notes | 172 |
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