The Black Freedom Struggle and Civil Rights Labor Organizing in the Piedmont and Eastern North Carolina Tobacco Industry

This thesis examines labor organizing in the U.S. South, specifically the Piedmont and eastern regions of North Carolina in the mid-twentieth century. It aims to uncover an often overlooked local history of civil rights labor organizing which challenged the southern status quo before America's...

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Main Author: Wells, Jennifer
Format: Others
Published: Scholar Commons 2013
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Online Access:http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4790
http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5987&context=etd