Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21University of Illinois Press, 2001 - 264 pages In this lucid and supremely readable study, Brian Kelly challenges the prevailing notion that white workers were the main source of resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly explores the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to foment racial divisions as a means of splitting the workforce, preventing unionization, and holding wages to the lowest levels in the country. He also details the role played by Birmingham's small but influential black middle class, whose espousal of industrial accommodation outraged black miners and revealed significant tensions within the African-American community. |
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Brian Kelly. Race , Class , and Power in the Alabama Coalfields , 1908–21 THE WORKING CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Editorial Advisors David Brody.
Brian Kelly. Race , Class , and Power in the Alabama Coalfields , 1908–21 THE WORKING CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Editorial Advisors David Brody.
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Brian Kelly. THE WORKING CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Editorial Advisors David Brody Alice Kessler - Harris David Montgomery Sean Wilentz A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book . Race , Class , and Power in the Alabama ...
Brian Kelly. THE WORKING CLASS IN AMERICAN HISTORY Editorial Advisors David Brody Alice Kessler - Harris David Montgomery Sean Wilentz A list of books in the series appears at the end of this book . Race , Class , and Power in the Alabama ...
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... History . 2. Afro - American coal miners - Alabama - History . 3. Afro - American labor union mem- bers - Alabama - History . I. Title . II . Series . HD6515.M615K45 2001 331.88'16262'0976109041 — dc21 00-009895 1 2 3 4 5 CP 5 4 3 2 1 ...
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... history program at Brandeis University , I set off from Boston during a January break some years back to visit archives in West Virginia and Alabama . Less than an hour into the trip it began to snow , and by the time I reached New York ...
... history program at Brandeis University , I set off from Boston during a January break some years back to visit archives in West Virginia and Alabama . Less than an hour into the trip it began to snow , and by the time I reached New York ...
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... history department at WVU and the author of a seminal study on African - Ameri- can coal miners . Generous with his time , helpful with source suggestions , and enthusiastic in his support for the project , Lewis played an important ...
... history department at WVU and the author of a seminal study on African - Ameri- can coal miners . Generous with his time , helpful with source suggestions , and enthusiastic in his support for the project , Lewis played an important ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Judgment Day 1908 | 17 |
The Operators Dilemma | 25 |
The Limits of Reform from Above | 50 |
Racial Paternalism and the Black Miner | 81 |
White Supremacy and WorkingClass Interracialism | 108 |
War Migration and the Revival of Coalfield Militancy | 132 |
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