03245nam 2200613Ia 450 991078519990332120200520144314.01-4696-0405-10-8078-9573-3(CKB)2670000000037580(EBL)565706(OCoLC)656846637(SSID)ssj0000429654(PQKBManifestationID)11270565(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000429654(PQKBWorkID)10431584(PQKB)10304108(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244358(MdBmJHUP)muse23511(Au-PeEL)EBL565706(CaPaEBR)ebr10405076(CaONFJC)MIL930692(MiAaPQ)EBC565706(EXLCZ)99267000000003758020091118d2010 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrThere's always work at the post office[electronic resource] African American postal workers and the fight for jobs, justice, and equality /Philip F. RubioChapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20101 online resource (473 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-5986-9 0-8078-3342-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 1950's (1954-1960) -- Interesting convergences in the early sixties post office (1960-1963) -- Black women in the 1960's 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.This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal...African American postal service employeesHistoryAfrican AmericansEmploymentHistoryPostal serviceEmployeesLabor unionsUnited StatesHistoryAfrican American postal service employeesHistory.African AmericansEmploymentHistory.Postal serviceEmployeesLabor unionsHistory.331.6/396073Rubio Philip F1547523MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785199903321There's always work at the post office3813852UNINA