Bibliograph

There's always work at the post office, African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality, Philip F. Rubio

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There's always work at the post office, African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality, Philip F. Rubio

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

There's always work at the post office

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

441211718

Responsibility statement

Philip F. Rubio

Sub title

African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- Who worked at the post office (before 1940)? -- Fighting Jim Crow at home during World War II (1940-1946) -- Black-led movement in the early Cold War (1946-1950) -- Fighting Jim Crow and McCarthyism (1947-1954) -- Collapsing Jim Crow postal unionism in the 1950s (1954-1960) -- Interesting convergences in the early sixties post office (1960-1963) -- Black women in the 1960s post office and postal unions (1960-1969) -- Civil rights postal unionism (1963-1966) -- Prelude to a strike (1966-1970) -- The great postal wildcat strike of 1970 -- Post-strike (1970-1971)

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