Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980

by Timothy J. Minchin

In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling account of the integration of the mills.
Minchin argues that the role...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807847712
• ISBN13: 9780807847718
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"