O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight

We Paved the Way

Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A compelling and thorough history of agitators and heroines who fought for equality in the Charleston Hospital Workers' Strike of 1969

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781496860071
• ISBN-10: 1496860071
• Artikelnr.: 74444444

Autorenporträt

O. Jennifer Dixon-McKnight is assistant professor of history and African American studies at Winthrop University. She is also director of Project 2020: A Collaborative Oral History, an oral history project that explores various aspects of the pivotal year 2020 and its impact on American society.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1—Charleston’s Local Protest Tradition
Chapter 2—Hospital Workers and Health-Care Activism
Chapter 3—"Union Power"
Chapter 4—"Soul Power"
Chapter 5—Respectable and Disorderly
Chapter 6—"McNair Fiddles While Rome Burns"
Chapter 7—Resolution and Disillusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index