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Black Workers for Justice

Name: Black Workers for Justice
Brand: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
SKU: 9781469699578
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THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESSISBN: 9781469699578

A History of Southern Labor and Black Liberation During the New Nadir

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By Ajamu A. Dillahunt-Holloway
Imprint: THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Release Date: May 10, 2027
Format: HARDBACK
Dimensions: 235 x 25 mm
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Pages: 344

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Black Workers for Justice (BWFJ) is a Black-led workers' organization based in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, that emerged from the struggles of Black Southern workers in the post-civil rights era. Challenging narratives that portray the 1980s as a period of conservative dominance and movement decline, Ajamu A. Dillahunt-Holloway argues that Black Southern workers developed new forms of grassroots resistance rooted in workplace democracy, racial justice, and internal accountability. By making the workplace a central arena of democratic struggle, BWFJ confronted racial capitalism, neoliberal restructuring, and the weakening of labor protections while rejecting any separation between civil rights and workers' rights. Situating BWFJ within a longer tradition of Black radicalism stretching back to the 1930s, Black Workers for Justice reinterprets the post-civil rights era through the lens of Black labor organizing and shows that the late twentieth century was a period of social movement innovation rather than political retreat. Through local labor campaigns, international solidarity efforts-including opposition to apartheid South Africa-and confrontations with corporate and state power, Dillahunt-Holloway expands our understanding of the long Black freedom movement and demonstrates the enduring power of workplace organizing in the post-civil rights South.

Ajamu A. Dillahunt-Holloway is assistant professor of history at North Carolina State University.

"Black Workers for Justice has been a revolutionary force in the labor movement. Organized and led by working people and a model of effective local movement that is also internationalist, its story has remained untold until now. Only Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway-a gifted historian and son of the movement-could have written a book so grounded in the archival record and sensitive to the multilayered (and unfinished) struggle for workers' power in the South. Urgent, astute, and indispensable, this is the book we need right now."-Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression and Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, and the War on Black Life "Breaking new ground in the African American freedom struggle, this rich narrative illuminates the leadership of Black workers and the fight for economic justice and political self-determination."- Akinyele Omowale Umoja, coeditor of The Memoirs of Robert and Mabel Williams: African American Freedom, Armed Resistance, and International Solidarity "A richly textured, deeply moving account of a movement that has been largely neglected in mainstream labor and civil rights scholarship. Black Workers for Justice reshaped multiracial labor organizing and deserves a more central place in labor and civil rights history. This vital book secures that place."-Shennette Garrett-Scott, author of Banking on Freedom: Black Women in US Finance Before the New Deal "For over four decades, Black Workers for Justice has stood at the center of the Black freedom and labor movement in North Carolina. Its organizational, political, and tactical influence cannot be overstated. Dillahunt-Holloway's brilliant assessment of this crucial organization is top-tier history; the kind of accessible, rigorous, and enlightening work that scholars hope for and activists pass between one another. This is an essential and illuminating work."- Charles W. McKinney Jr., author of Greater Freedom: The Evolution of the Civil Rights Struggle in Wilson, North Carolina

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