List Books » There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality
Authors: Philip F. Rubio
ISBN-13: 9780807859865, ISBN-10: 0807859869
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Date Published: May 2010
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Philip F. Rubio is assistant professor of university studies at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro and author of the award-winning A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000
Rubio, a former postal worker, brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Having fought their way into postal positions and unions, black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--became a critical force for social change. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the U.S.
Chronology
Introduction 1
1 Who Worked at the Post Office (before 1940)? 16
2 Fighting Jim Crow at Home during World War II (1940-1946) 51
3 Black-Led Movement in the Early Cold War (1946-1950) 74
4 Fighting Jim Crow and McCarthyism (1947-1954) 99
5 Collapsing Jim Crow Postal Unionism in the 1950s (1954-1960) 121
6 Interesting Convergences in the Early Sixties Post Office (1960-1963) 148
7 Black Women in the 1960s Post Office and Postal Unions (1960-1969) 171
8 Civil Rights Postal Unionism (1963-1966) 191
9 Prelude to a Strike (1966-1970) 207
10 The Great Postal Wildcat Strike of 1970 233
11 Post-Strike (1970-1971) 262
Epilogue 275
Conclusion 286
Notes 287
Bibliography 409
Index 433