Black Worker in the Deep South

Hosea Hudson's story, as remarkable as it is, is one that could be told many times by determined southern blacks who have fought for freedom and justice throughout the historic southland. "Black Worker in the Deep South" brings memories of Martin Luther King's movement. We need to aleays rmember and remind ourselves of the strruggles such as Hosea Hudson's.

"Black Worker in the Deep South" is the autobiography of an unsung blacl leader who, as so many others, has been blotted out from history. It tells the odyssey of Hosea Hudson from a poor Klan infested country town in Georgia, before the turn of the 20th centurry, to his triumph as one of the south's greatest black union presidents and civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Black Worker in the Deep South

Hosea Hudson's story, as remarkable as it is, is one that could be told many times by determined southern blacks who have fought for freedom and justice throughout the historic southland. "Black Worker in the Deep South" brings memories of Martin Luther King's movement. We need to aleays rmember and remind ourselves of the strruggles such as Hosea Hudson's.

"Black Worker in the Deep South" is the autobiography of an unsung blacl leader who, as so many others, has been blotted out from history. It tells the odyssey of Hosea Hudson from a poor Klan infested country town in Georgia, before the turn of the 20th centurry, to his triumph as one of the south's greatest black union presidents and civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Black Worker in the Deep South

Black Worker in the Deep South

by Hosea Hudson
Black Worker in the Deep South

Black Worker in the Deep South

by Hosea Hudson

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Hosea Hudson's story, as remarkable as it is, is one that could be told many times by determined southern blacks who have fought for freedom and justice throughout the historic southland. "Black Worker in the Deep South" brings memories of Martin Luther King's movement. We need to aleays rmember and remind ourselves of the strruggles such as Hosea Hudson's.

"Black Worker in the Deep South" is the autobiography of an unsung blacl leader who, as so many others, has been blotted out from history. It tells the odyssey of Hosea Hudson from a poor Klan infested country town in Georgia, before the turn of the 20th centurry, to his triumph as one of the south's greatest black union presidents and civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780717806836
Publisher: International Publishers Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 05/01/1991
Pages: 142
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.34(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Plowhand in the Georgia Cotton Fields

2. Sharecroppers are Always Moving

3. Plowhand into Industrial Worker

4. Legal Lynchings

5. The Making of a Union Man and a Communist

6. Bosses and Stool Pigeons

7. Unemploymnet Struggles

8. Victories and Setbacks

9. Southern Wiorkers Organize

10. Target of the Bosses and the Klan

11. Campagin to Register and Vote

12. My Education Continues

13 Observations and Tributes

14. Then and Know

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