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Homeboy Came to Orange - A Story of People's Power (Paperback)
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Homeboy Came to Orange - A Story of People's Power (Paperback)
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The story of a union organizer who found a second career in
community organizing and helped a Jim Crow city become a better
place. Ernest Thompson dedicated his life to organizing the
powerless. This lively, illustrated personal narrative of his work
shows the great contribution that people's coalitions can make to
the struggle for equality and freedom. Thompson cut his teeth
organizing one of the great industrial unions, the United
Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America, and brought his
organizing skills and commitment to coalition building to Orange,
New Jersey. He built a strong organization and skillfully led
fights for school desegregation, black political representation,
and strong government in a city he initially thought of as a "dirty
Jim Crow town going nowhere." Thompson came to love the City of
Orange and its caring citizens, seeing in its struggles a microcosm
of America. This story of people's power is meant for all who
struggle for human rights, economic opportunity, decent housing,
effective education, and a chance for children to have a better
life. Ernest Thompson (1906-1971) grew up on the Eastern Shore of
Maryland, on a farm that had been given to his family at the end of
the Civil War. The family was very poor and oppressed by racist
practices. Thompson was determined to get away and to obtain power.
He migrated to Jersey City, where he became part of the union
organizing movement that built the Congress of Industrial Unions
(CIO). He became the first African American to hold a fulltime
organizing position with his union, the United Electrical Radio and
Machine Workers of America (UE). He eventually headed UE's
innovative Fair Employment Practices program and fought for equal
rights and pay for women and minority workers. Thompson also helped
build the National Negro Labor Council, 1951-1956, and served as
its director of organizing. In 1956, under the onslaught of the
McCarthy era, UE was split in two, and Thompson lost his job. His
wife, Margaret Thompson, brought the local school segregation to
his attention. Ernie "Home" Thompson organized to desegregate the
regional schools, building strong coalitions and political power
for the black community that ultimately served all the people of
Orange.
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