AlabamaNorth : African-American migrants, community, and working-class activism in Cleveland, 1915-45 /

AlabamaNorth : African-American migrants, community, and working-class activism in Cleveland, 1915-45 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Phillips, Kimberley L. 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.
Series:The working class in American history
Subjects:
African Americans > Ohio > Cleveland > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Ohio > Cleveland > Social conditions.
Working class > Ohio > Cleveland > Economic conditions.
Working class > Ohio > Cleveland > Social conditions.
African Americans > Southern States > Economic conditions.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions.
Labor movement > Ohio > Cleveland > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > Ohio > Cleveland > History > 20th century.
Migration, Internal > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Militancy and courage" in AlabamaNorth: African-American migrants and the crossroads of southern Black culture
  • "Pins" north: the routes of African-American migration to Cleveland
  • Encountering work: African-American workers' experiences in the Cleveland labor market, 1915-29
  • "Join a union": African-American workers and organized labor, 1915-30
  • A new world in the city: making homes in Cleveland
  • "AlabamaNorth": a community of Southerners
  • "The future is yours:" store boycott campaigns and Black workers' militancy
  • "The plight of Negro workers": federal initiatives and African-American working-class militancy during World War II
  • Conclusion: We will make a way somehow: the legacy of a southern past in a northern city
  • Notes
  • Index.

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