The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921
- ISBN-10
- 0807846783
- ISBN-13
- 9780807846780
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 289
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Daniel Letwin
Description
This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to colla
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