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- Title
"We Had a Utopia in the Union": James Wright, the Farm Equipment Workers Union, and the Struggle for Civil Rights Unionism in Postwar Louisville, 1946-1952.
- Authors
Devinatz, Victor G.
- Abstract
Led by the Communist Party USA, the Farm Equipment Workers Union (FE) fought for civil rights for African-American workers during its brief existence, 1938-55. The FE motivated and encouraged James Wright, an African American union activist, to take a leadership role in civil rights struggles in Louisville, Kentucky, in the years immediately after World War II. The author concludes that the CPUSA-led unions as a whole (not only the FE) led in the development of civil rights unionism during this era.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLLECTIVE labor agreements in the agricultural equipment industry; AFRICAN American labor union members; LABOR unions; COMMUNIST Party of the United States of America; INTERNATIONAL Harvester Co.; WRIGHT, James; HISTORY of political parties; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY of labor unions; HISTORY of civil rights
- Publication
Nature, Society & Thought, 2007, Vol 20, Issue 3/4, p261
- ISSN
0890-6130
- Publication type
Article