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02872cam a2200421 a 4500 001 7E111F760F4011DF93771FC5C41A358D 003 SILO 005 20100201083435 008 080729s2009 miuaf b s000 0aeng 010 $a 2008033535 020 $a 0472065874 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780472065875 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0472095870 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780472095872 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)243845214 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d UKM $d C#P $d CDX $d BWX $d BTCTA $d RID $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.97.R663 $b A3 2009 082 00 $a 323.092 B $2 22 100 1 $a Robinson, Mary, $d 1943- 245 1 $a Moisture of the earth : $b Mary Robinson, civil rights and textile union activist : an oral history / $c compiled and edited by Fran Leeper Buss. 260 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c c2009. 300 $a xv, 222 p., [8] p. of plates : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Class, culture 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222). 520 $a 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--From publisher description. 600 10 $a Robinson, Mary, $d 1943- 650 0 $a African American women civil rights workers $v Biography. 650 0 $a Civil rights workers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Women textile workers $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Textile workers $z United States $v Biography. 700 1 $a Buss, Fran Leeper, $d 1942- 830 0 $a Class, culture. 856 41 $3 Table of contents only $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008033535.html 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160825043846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E111F760F4011DF93771FC5C41A358D 994 $a 02 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search