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Title:

Struggles in steel : a story of African-American steelworkers / Braddock Films, Inc. ; produced & directed by Tony Buba, Raymond Henderson.

Publisher:

California Newsreel,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

1 videocassette (57 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in. = + 1 study guide.

Subject:

Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)--History.
African American iron and steel workers--History.
African Americans--History.--History.
African American iron and steel workers--Interviews.
Iron and steel workers--United States--History--20th century.
Steel industry and trade--United States--History--20th century.
Discrimination in employment--United States--History--20th century.
Industrial relations--United States--History--20th century.
Iron and steel workers--United States--Interviews.
Steel industry and trade--United States--History.--History.
Strikes and lockouts--History.--United States--History.
African American labor union members--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Buba, Tony. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85218735
Henderson, R. J. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003080329
Dickerson, Dennis C., 1949- Out of the crucible.
Braddock Films. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98002385
California Newsreel (Firm) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80142225

Notes:

Based on an idea by Ray Henderson and the book Out of the crucible, by Dennis C. Dickerson.

Summary:

Interviews with more than 70 retired black steelworkers who tell of struggles with the company, the union and white co-workers to break out of the black job ghetto. Film traces a century of black industrial history--the use of blacks as strikebreakers against the all-white union during the 1892 Homestead Strike, the Great Migration of fieldworkers to the North in World War I, the racial divisions between workers during the Great Steel Strike of 1919 and the ultimate success of the CIO organizing drives of the 1930s. When black vets returned to the mills after WWII, they were still locked into the worst jobs with no rights to bid on better-paying, higher-skilled work. The steelworkers recount how they finally won agreement in 1974 compelling the company and the union to set hiring and promotion goals for women and minorities.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)82685580

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)