There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality / Philip F. Rubio.
Rubio, Philip F.
2010
HE6499 .R82 2010 (Mapit)
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Title There's always work at the post office : African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality / Philip F. Rubio.
Author Rubio, Philip F.
ISBN 9780807859865 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859869 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807833421 (alk. paper)
0807833428 (alk. paper)
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Language English
Description xxiii, 446 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HE6499 .R82 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification 331.6/396073
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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