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Along the lower Mississippi

Workers, environmentalists & Black community join forces against toxics by Peter Shapiro The BASF petrochemical plant stands along the lower Mississippi River in the small, mainly African American town of Geismar, midway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A... Read More »

Victory in Georgia textile

News Analysis African American women unionize in the rural South Contributed LOUISVILE & WAYNESBORO, GA. – On Oct. 13, 18 months after voting to join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), 600 workers at the Samsons and Delila... Read More »

Organizing the South’s “Sweatshirt Capital”

First-hand account of in-plant union drive MARTINSVILLE, VA. — In one of the largest industrial organizing campaigns of recent years, 3,000 textile workers at the Tultex Corporation began organizing a union this past June. Tultex and several other companies here... Read More »

Janitors’ rights stand above Atlanta highrises

Black women’s union drive demands dignity in heart of New South Atlanta — when people talk about the “New South,” they often mention Atlanta — one of the region’s biggest and most modem cities. Yet much of this image masks... Read More »

Black women challenge the open shop in Mississippi

New victory in catfish union drive Peter Shapiro The 3,500 mainly Black women workers in Mississippi’s booming catfish industry are moving into the front ranks of the struggle for unionization and for equality and political power in the state. On... Read More »

How to Skin a Catfish Company; Winds of change are blowing in Mississippi

Behind the union win by Black women in Mississippi The dramatic victory of a nine-month organizing drive at Delta Pride in Indianola in October by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) highlights a spreading movement for union recognition among... Read More »

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Along the lower Mississippi

Victory in Georgia textile

Organizing the South’s “Sweatshirt Capital”

Janitors’ rights stand above Atlanta highrises

Black women challenge the open shop in Mississippi

How to Skin a Catfish Company; Winds of change are blowing in Mississippi

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Oral History Project

GETTING TOGETHER PUBLICATIONS

AMIRI BARAKA

Archives

Along the lower Mississippi

Victory in Georgia textile

Organizing the South’s “Sweatshirt Capital”

Janitors’ rights stand above Atlanta highrises

Black women challenge the open shop in Mississippi

How to Skin a Catfish Company; Winds of change are blowing in Mississippi

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Oral History Project

GETTING TOGETHER PUBLICATIONS

AMIRI BARAKA

CHANCE OF A LIFETIME
Oral History Project