Race, class, and power in the Alabama coalfields, 1908-21 /
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-...
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| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2001], ©2001
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| Series: | The working class in American history
Working class in American history |
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Table of Contents:
- The operator's dilemma
- The limits of reform from above
- "Friends" in high places : Racial paternalism and the Black miner
- White supremacy and working-class interracialism
- War, migration, and the revival of coalfield militancy
- "People here has come to a pass" : the 1920 Strike
- The operator's dilemma
- The limits of reform from above
- "Friends" in high places: Racial paternalism and the Black miner
- White supremacy and working-class interracialism
- War, migration, and the revival of coalfield militancy
- "People here has come to a pass": the 1920 Strike
- Prologue: Judgment Day, 1908
- 1 The Operators' Dilemma
- 2. The Limits of Reform from Above
- 3. "Friends" in High Places: Racial Paternalism and the Black Miner
- 4. White Supremacy and Working-Class Interracialism
- 5. War, Migration, and the Revival of Coalfield Militancy
- 6. "People Here Has Come to a Pass": The 1920 Strike
- Conclusion: Bringing the Employers Back In.