Resources

Labor Movements in the South

The Political Economy of Early Southern Unionism: Race, Politics, and Labor in the South, 1880-1953 — Written by Gerald Friedman, 2000
An Unmistakably Working-Class Vision: Birmingham's Foot Soldiers and Their Civil Rights Movement — Written by Max Krochmal, 2010
Black unionism in the industrial South — Written by Ernest Obadele-Starks, 2000
Kenny Riley and black union labor power in the port of Charleston — Written by Edward James Reed 1948-, John Joseph Yurechko, 2020

Labor and the Civil Rights Movement

A. Philip Randolph and the struggle for civil rights — Written by Cornelius L. Bynum, 2010
Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle — Written by Michael K. Hone, 1999
A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom — Directed by Dante James, 1996
Brother Outsider : the life of Bayard Rustin — Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett L. Singer (2003)
For Jobs and Freedom: The Selected Speeches and Writings of A. Philip Randolph — Written by A. Philip Randolph, Edited by David Lucander and Andrew Edmund Kersten, 2014
Strategies for freedom : the changing patterns of Black protest — Written by Bayard Rustin and A Philip Randolph (Asa Philip)
- E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Harrison B. Wilson Archives
- E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Herbert A. Marshall Collection

10,000 Black Men Named George

Directed by Robert Townsend, Produced by Abby Mann, Andre Braugher, Stan Margulies, and Michelle Mundy (2003)
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Women and the Labor Movement

Schooling the System: A history of Black women teachers — Written by Funké Aladejebi, 2021
I Am Somebody — Directed by Madeline Anderson, Produced by Madeline Anderson and Moe Foner, 1970
An Intimate Economy: Enslaved women, work and America’s domestic slave trade — Written by Alexandra J. Finley, 2020
Chapter 7: Hattie Canty in Changing the Game: Women at work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990 — Written by Joanne L. Goodwin, 2014
Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black women, work and the family, from slavery to the present — Written by Jacqueline Jones, 2010
Goddess of Anarchy: The life and times of Lucy Parsons, American radical — Written by Jacqueline Jones, 2017
- HX843.7.P37 J66 2017 — Brooks Library Circulation Stacks
Making the World a Better Place: African American women advocate, activists, and leaders, 1773-1900 — Written by Jacqueline Jones Royster, 2023
“Not at All Proper for Women”: Black female railroaders in Railroad History — Written by Theodore Kornweibel, 2009
Reverend Addie Wyat: Faith and the fight for labor, gender, and racial equality — Written by Marcia Walker-McWilliams, 2016
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black professional women workers during the Jim Crow era — Written by Stephanie J. Shaw, 1996

Arts and the Labor Movement

Inside/Beside Dance Studies: A Conversation: Mellon Dance Studies in/and the Humanities in Dance Research Journal — Written by Michelle Clayton, Mark Franko, Nadine George-Graves, André Lepecki, Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider, 2014
Making Movies Black: The Hollywood message movie from World War II to the Civil Rights era — Written by Thomas Cripps, 1993
Building the Black Arts Movement: Hoyt Fuller and the cultural politics of the 1960s — Written by Jonathan Fenderson, 2019
The Routledge History of Social Protest in Popular Music — Edited by Jonathan C. Friedman, 201
Soundtrack for a Revolution — Produced by Danny Glover, Directed by William Guttentag and Dan Sturman, 2010.
- E185.61 .S68 2010 – Brooks Library Media
Socialist and Labor Songs: An international revolutionary songbook — Edited by Elizabeth Morgan, 2014
Sweat [a Play] — Written by Lynn Nottage, 2017

Intellectual Labor

When will the joy come? : Black women in the ivory tower — Edited by Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Michelle Dionne Thompson, and Abena Ampofoa Asare, 2023.
“The right information”: perceptions of information bias among Black Wikipedians — Written by Boryung Ju and Brenton Stewart 2019

Labor and Sports

Finding the Lost Jockeys — Written by Debra Barbezat and James Hguhes, 2014

Not (Just) about the Money: Contextualizing the Labor Activism of College Football Players — Written by Daniel A. Gilbert, 2016

Arthur Ashe: Tennis and justice in the Civil Rights era — Written by Eric Allen Hall, 2014

Oral Histories

HistoryMakers Digital Archive
The autobiographical sketches in this collection demonstrate the profound achievements of African Americans across virtually all fields and aspects of American life, including science, the arts and entertainment, politics, literature, the military, and the academy. The video database currently contains over 2,600 interviews (nearly 10,000 hours of interview footage).

Below is a non-comprehensive list of oral histories with politicians, organizers, and workers connected to labor movements.

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Clayola Brown — Interviewed July 13, 2005 by Larry Crowe, videographer Scott Stearns
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Arthur Fletcher —Interviewed May 29, 2003 by Julieanna L. Richardson, Videographer Matthew Hickey
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Alexis Herman — Interviewed June 30, 2003 by Julieanna L. Richardson, videographer Scott Stearns
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with William Lucy — Interviewed May 1, 2012 by Larry Crowe, videographer Matthew Hickey
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Cornell Leverette Moore — Interviewed by Larry Crowe, videographer Matthew Hickey
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Judy Pace-Floo — Interviewed March 29, 2005 by Larry Crowe, videographer Matthew Hickey
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Charles Stewart, II — Interviewed December 13, 2004 by Larry Crowe, videographer Scott Stearns
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Reginald Weaver — Interviewed August 2, 2007 by Paul Brock, videographer Matthew Hickey
The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Richard G. Womack — Interviewed June 29, 2005 by Larry Crowe, videographer Neculai Burghelea

The History Makers Video Oral History with Reverend Addie Wyatt — Interviewed June 1, 2002, by Julieanna L. Richardson, videographer Scott Stearns
- E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Harrison B. Wilson Archives
- E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Herbert A. Marshall Collection
10,000 Black Men Named George — Directed by Robert Townsend, Produced by Abby Mann, Andre Braugher, Stan Margulies, and Michelle Mundy (2003)
- PN1997 .A23 T45667 – Brooks Library Media

Podcasts

Episodes of African American Studies (New Books Network podcast): America Under the Hammer | Freeman's Challenge
Episode of Black History, For Real: Everyday I’m Hustlin’ | For Real, For Real
Episodes of Code Switch from NPR: We owe women of color for the foods we love to eat| Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 1 | Honoring my enslaved ancestors: Episode 2
Episodes of Small Doses with Amanda Seales: Side Effects of Union Busting (with Alejandra Quintero) | Side Effects of Labor Unions Pt. 1 (with Chris Smalls) | Side Effects of Labor Unions Pt. 2
Working Wage | Black Labor Advocacy in the South, three part series from The Charlotte Post: Project Overview | Stand Alone Podcast
Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis with Augustus Wood, through the University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne Humanities Research Institute
Episode of the Black in Appalachia podcast: Researching Black Businesses
Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class with Blair Kelley, Episode of Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Social Justice and How We Get Free: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Podcasts
Episode of We the People: What the Black Intellectual Tradition Can Teach Us About American Democracy

Online Resources

YouTube series that grew from the work on the documentary, Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians: Are You a Librarian
Black Perspectives from the African American Intellectual History Society: https://www.aaihs.org/black-perspectives/ - https://www.aaihs.org/about/
Column by Alexis Yeboah from Minnesota Women's Press: VIEW: The Emotional Labor of Black Women

Museum Resources

Chrysler Exhibition Opening in February: Joyce J. Scott: Messages
Past American Folk Art Museum Exhibitions: Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the Collection; Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition—Contemporary African American Quilts
Harriet Powers Quilts: Smithsonian Institute and MFA Boston
Quilts from the Gee’s Bend Freedom Quilting Bee: Smithsonian Institute; Silo and Sharecropper’s Masterpiece | National Endowment for the Arts; Blog Post with Slideshow | Freedom Quilting Bee Legacy website | VMFA page
Nick Cave Soundsuits : Chrysler Museum Collection | Smithsonian Institute | Art 21 Profile with Videos