A Black Revolutionary's Life in Labor: Black Workers Power in
Detroit by Michael Hamlin with Michele Gibbs is a must read
personal narrative of a book for labor activists, students and
educators, community organizers and lovers of black history. In
this candid narrative Hamlin exposes the horrors of growing up
black in America from a Mississippi sharecropper's plantation to
Korean War soldier, and ultimately truck driver for the Detroit
News and his increasing rage at the system. Hamlin, a key organizer
of DRUM and a leader of The League of Revolutionary Black Workers,
describes his role in the 1960's and early 1970's when black
assembly line workers shut down Chrysler Detroit's Dodge Main and
Eldon Road auto plants to protest racial discrimination, safety
violations and poor working conditions. The actions spawned a
national revolutionary union movement built on black workers power.
In documented conversation with Michele Gibbs, political
activist, artist and poet, Hamlin offers an inside look at the
development of the League and its internal struggles, analyzes
historic gains made and lessons learned as they apply to the
continuing fight for racial equality by the working class. The book
includes a Readers Study Guide, appendices of documents, poetry,
artwork and photos pertinent to the period.
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