Robert Korstad: 4 books
Remembering Jim Crow
African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review).
Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary...
Civil Rights Unionism
Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned...
Like a Family
The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton...
To Right These Wrongs
The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
When Governor Terry Sanford established the North Carolina Fund in 1963, he saw it as a way to provide a better life for the "tens of thousands whose family income is so low that daily subsistence is always in doubt." Illustrated with evocative photographs by Billy Barnes, To Right These...