Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21
(Part of the The Working Class in American History Series)
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Brian Kelly's acclaimed look at the fault lines in the society of an Alabama city challenges the notion that white workers led the resistance to racial equality in the Jim Crow South. Kelly focuses on the forces that brought the black and white miners of Birmingham, Alabama, together during the hard-fought strikes of 1908 and 1920. He examines the systematic efforts by the region's powerful industrialists to create racial divisions as a means of splitting...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0252069331
ISBN13:9780252069338
Release Date:March 2001
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
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