Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco
workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to
life the forgotten heroes of Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco,
Agricultural and Allied Workers of America-CIO. These workers
confronted a system of racial capitalism that consigned African
Americans to the basest jobs in the industry, perpetuated low wages
for all southerners, and shored up white supremacy.
Galvanized by the emergence of the CIO, African Americans took
the lead in a campaign that saw a strong labor movement and the
reenfranchisement of the southern poor as keys to reforming the
South--and a reformed South as central to the survival and
expansion of the New Deal. In the window of opportunity opened by
World War II, they blurred the boundaries between home and work as
they linked civil rights and labor rights in a bid for justice at
work and in the public sphere.
But civil rights unionism foundered in the maelstrom of the Cold
War. Its defeat undermined later efforts by civil rights activists
to raise issues of economic equality to the moral high ground
occupied by the fight against legalized segregation and, Korstad
contends, constrains the prospects for justice and democracy
today.
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