Product Description: Covering the nature of theatre, theatre artists and what they do, the history of theatre, the contemporary theatre, and global theatre, this study is designed for theatre appreciation courses. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Uses oral histories and case studies that focus on black activism in the South to examine the work of grassroots groups who struggled with the economic dimensions of the movement.

Product Description: This is a concise yet wide-ranging and accessible synthesis of the experience of southern workers between World War II and the present, and it links its discussion to important debates in the field of southern history today. Timothy Minchin brings the story of southern labor up to date and places the workers' own experiences in the forefront of his account...read more

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Product Description: In the 1960s and 1970s, the textile industry's workforce underwent a dramatic transformation, as African Americans entered the South's largest industry in growing numbers. Only 3.3 percent of textile workers were black in 1960; by 1978, this number had risen to 25 percent...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The rise in standards of living throughout the U. S. in the wake of World War II brought significant changes to the lives of southern textile workers. Mill workers' wages rose, their purchasing power grew, and their economic expectations increased--with little help from the unions...read more