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The challenge of interracial unionism : Alabama coal miners, 1878-1921 / Daniel Letwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0807862878
  • 9780807862872
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Challenge of interracial unionism.DDC classification:
  • 331.88/122334/09761 21
LOC classification:
  • HD6515.M615 L478 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The rise of the Birmingham district -- The world of the Alabama coal miners -- The Greenback-Labor Party and the Knights of Labor -- The United Mine Workers in the populist era -- The United Mine Workers in the age of segregation -- The United Mine Workers in the World War I era.
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Summary: This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to collaborate in the labor movement even as racial segregation divided them in nearly every other aspect of their lives. Letwin examines a series of labor campaigns - conducted under the banners of the Greenback-Labor Party, the Knights of Labor, and, most extensively, the United Mine Workers - whose interracial character came into growing conflict with the southern racial order.Summary: This tension gives rise to the book's central question: to what extent could the unifying potential of class withstand the divisive pressure of race? Arguing that interracial unionism in the New South was much more complex and ambiguous than is generally recognized, Letwin offers a story of both promise and failure, as a movement crossing the color line alternately transcended and succumbed to the gathering hegemony of Jim Crow.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-275) and index.

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The rise of the Birmingham district -- The world of the Alabama coal miners -- The Greenback-Labor Party and the Knights of Labor -- The United Mine Workers in the populist era -- The United Mine Workers in the age of segregation -- The United Mine Workers in the World War I era.

This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to collaborate in the labor movement even as racial segregation divided them in nearly every other aspect of their lives. Letwin examines a series of labor campaigns - conducted under the banners of the Greenback-Labor Party, the Knights of Labor, and, most extensively, the United Mine Workers - whose interracial character came into growing conflict with the southern racial order.

This tension gives rise to the book's central question: to what extent could the unifying potential of class withstand the divisive pressure of race? Arguing that interracial unionism in the New South was much more complex and ambiguous than is generally recognized, Letwin offers a story of both promise and failure, as a movement crossing the color line alternately transcended and succumbed to the gathering hegemony of Jim Crow.

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