The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980

Histories of the civil rights movement have generally overlooked the battle to integrate the South’s major industries. The paper industry, which has played an important role in the southern economy since the 1930s, has been particularly neglected. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin provides the first in-depth account of the struggle to integrate southern paper mills.

Minchin describes how jobs in the southern paper industry were strictly segr...