Moisture of the earth : Mary Robinson, civil rights and textile union activist : an oral history

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Label

Moisture of the earth : Mary Robinson, civil rights and textile union activist : an oral history

Title remainder

Mary Robinson, civil rights and textile union activist : an oral history

Statement of responsibility

compiled and edited by Fran Leeper Buss

Creator

• Robinson, Mary, 1943-

Contributor

• Buss, Fran Leeper, 1942-

Subject

• Biographies
• Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
• Robinson, Mary, 1943-
• Textile workers -- United States -- Biography
• Women textile workers -- United States -- Biography
• African American women civil rights workers -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"Mary Robinson recounts her journey from picking cotton in rural Alabama to becoming an outspoken community leader and labor activist. The daughter of sharecroppers, Robinson came of age at the peak of the civil rights movement and took a job in J.P. Stevens's Montgomery plant when the textitle manufacturing giant was forced to admit African American workers. She soon became part of the historic organizing struggle by the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, finding her voice as an outspoken activist and union organizer. This narrative is a behind-the-scenes account of union organizing drives in the South, from the vantage point of a black woman. Based on twenty-three years of interviews betwen Mary Robinson and oral historian Fran Leeper Buss, this book reveals the intertwined effects of race, class, and gender on the lives of lower-income women during segregation and after; sheds light on African American resistance movmements in the twentieth century and the roles of religious traditions and storytelling in struggles for social justice; and highlights women's important roles in community activism and the labor movement."--Publisher description

Member of

• Class, culture

Biography type

autobiography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 323.092 B
• B

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

no index present

LC call number

E185.97.R663

LC item number

A3 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Class, culture