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Labor Movements in the South

  •  — Written by Gerald Friedman, 2000
  •  — Written by Max Krochmal, 2010
  • — Written by Ernest Obadele-Starks, 2000
  • — Written by Edward James Reed 1948-, John Joseph Yurechko, 2020

Labor and the Civil Rights Movement

  • — Written by Cornelius L. Bynum, 2010
  •  — Written by Michael K. Hone, 1999
  •  — Directed by Dante James, 1996
  •  — Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett L. Singer (2003)
  •  — Written by A. Philip Randolph, Edited by David Lucander and Andrew Edmund Kersten, 2014
  •  — Written by Bayard Rustin and A Philip Randolph (Asa Philip)
    • E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Harrison B. Wilson Archives
    • E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Herbert A. Marshall Collection 
  • Directed by Robert Townsend, Produced by Abby Mann, Andre Braugher, Stan Margulies, and Michelle Mundy (2003)
  • PN1997 .A23 T45667 – Brooks Library Media
     

Women and the Labor Movement

  •  — Written by Funké Aladejebi, 2021
  •  — Directed by Madeline Anderson, Produced by Madeline Anderson and Moe Foner, 1970
  •  — Written by Alexandra J. Finley, 2020
  •  — Written by Joanne L. Goodwin, 2014
  •  — Written by Jacqueline Jones, 2010
  •  — Written by Jacqueline Jones, 2017 
    • HX843.7.P37 J66 2017 — Brooks Library Circulation Stacks
  •  — Written by Jacqueline Jones Royster, 2023
  •  — Written by Theodore Kornweibel, 2009
  •  — Written by Marcia Walker-McWilliams, 2016
  •  — Written by Stephanie J. Shaw, 1996

Arts and the Labor Movement

  •  — Written by Michelle Clayton, Mark Franko, Nadine George-Graves, André Lepecki, Susan Manning, Janice Ross, and Rebecca Schneider, 2014
  •  — Written by Thomas Cripps, 1993
  •  — Written by Jonathan Fenderson, 2019
  •  — Edited by Jonathan C. Friedman, 201
  •  — Produced by Danny Glover, Directed by William Guttentag and Dan Sturman, 2010. 
    • E185.61 .S68 2010 – Brooks Library Media
  •  — Edited by Elizabeth Morgan, 2014
  •  — Written by Lynn Nottage, 2017

 

Intellectual Labor

  •  — Edited by Robin Phylisia Chapdelaine, Michelle Dionne Thompson, and Abena Ampofoa Asare, 2023.
  •  —  Written by Boryung Ju and Brenton Stewart 2019

 

Labor and Sports

  •  — Written by Debra Barbezat and James Hguhes, 2014
  • — Written by Daniel A. Gilbert, 2016
  • — Written by Eric Allen Hall, 2014

Oral Histories


  • The autobiographical sketches in this collection demonstrate the profound achievements of African Americans across virtually all fields and aspects of American life, including science, the arts and entertainment, politics, literature, the military, and the academy. The video database currently contains over 2,600 interviews (nearly 10,000 hours of interview footage). 

Below is a non-comprehensive list of oral histories with politicians, organizers, and workers connected to labor movements.

  •  — Interviewed July 13, 2005 by Larry Crowe, videographer Scott Stearns
  •  —Interviewed May 29, 2003 by Julieanna L. Richardson, Videographer Matthew Hickey
  • — Interviewed June 30, 2003 by Julieanna L. Richardson, videographer Scott Stearns
  •  — Interviewed May 1, 2012 by Larry Crowe, videographer Matthew Hickey
  • — Interviewed by Larry Crowe, videographer Matthew Hickey
  •  — Interviewed March 29, 2005 by Larry Crowe, videographer Matthew Hickey
  •  — Interviewed December 13, 2004 by Larry Crowe, videographer Scott Stearns
  •  — Interviewed August 2, 2007 by Paul Brock, videographer Matthew Hickey
  •  — Interviewed June 29, 2005 by Larry Crowe, videographer Neculai Burghelea
  •  — Interviewed June 1, 2002, by Julieanna L. Richardson, videographer Scott Stearns
    • E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Harrison B. Wilson Archives
    • E185.61 .R967 - Brooks Library Herbert A. Marshall Collection
  •  — Directed by Robert Townsend, Produced by Abby Mann, Andre Braugher, Stan Margulies, and Michelle Mundy (2003) 
    • PN1997 .A23 T45667 – Brooks Library Media

Podcasts

  • Episodes of African American Studies (New Books Network podcast):  |  

  • Episode of Black History, For Real:  

  • Episodes of Code Switch from NPR: |  |  

  • Episodes of Small Doses with Amanda Seales:  |  |  

  • Working Wage | Black Labor Advocacy in the South, three part series from The Charlotte Post:   |   

  • Off the Shelf: Revolutionary Readings in Times of Crisis with Augustus Wood, through the  

  • Episode of the Black in Appalachia podcast:  

  • Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class with Blair Kelley, Episode of Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Social Justice and How We Get Free:  |  

  • Episode of We the People:  

Online Resources

  • YouTube series that grew from the work on the documentary, Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians:  

  • Black Perspectives from the African American Intellectual History Society:  -  

  • Column by Alexis Yeboah from Minnesota Women's Press:  

Museum Resources

  • Chrysler Exhibition Opening in February:  

  • Past American Folk Art Museum Exhibitions: ;  

  • Harriet Powers Quilts:  and  

  • Quilts from the Gee’s Bend Freedom Quilting Bee:  Smithsonian Institute;  and  | National Endowment for the Arts;  |  |  

  • Nick Cave Soundsuits :  |  |