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There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rubio, Philip F.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Discrimination in employment > United States > History.
Postal service > Employees > Labor unions > United States > History.
African Americans > Employment > History.
African American postal service employees > History.
National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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)
  • Epilogue
  • Conclusion.