{"product_id":"strong-in-the-struggle-my-life-as-a-black-labor-activist-voices-and-visions-people-events-that-made-a-dfference-in-american-life-voices-visions-9780847691913","title":"Strong in the Struggle My Life as a Black Labor","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee Brown was an African-American labour activist who was jailed in the 1950s for protesting against the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is the story of Brown's life from his political awakening as a youth from the rural South to his rise to leadership, time of imprisonment and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndispensable for anyone trying to understand the realities of life in the United States. This is a very moving account of a militant African-American man in the 20th century. It illuminates the defeats and victories of the labor movement, North and South, with clear honesty. -- Herbert Aptheker, author of \u003ci\u003eA Documentary History of the Negro People in the United States\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee Brown’s compelling story urges us to imagine a radically different history of the twentieth century United States, a history forged by a persistent and courageous defense of workers’ rights and by an indefatigable advocacy of racial equality. In his powerful and unpretentious way, Brown shows us a life whose meaning resides in an unrelenting faith in the ability of working people to fight for a better world. As veteran, witness, and chronicler, he addresses new generations of activists—those who speak out today against global capitalism, racism, patriarchy, and homophobia—and offer them a firm place on his shoulders. -- Angela Y. Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz; author of Blues Legend and Black Feminism\u003cbr\u003eFully represents the history of African American workers and activists in the twentieth century, the transformation of our presence from a rural to an urban one, and the impact the industrial revolution, the trade union movement, World War II, and the Civil Rights Movement have had on the way we live and we work. This book is especially important because we have so few worker biographies, so few life stories of 'the people' that Lee Brown has always been ready to represent. It is important to see history from this prism, to view our nation’s evolution through the life of a man whose voice, strong and authentic, is amplified through this powerful, absorbing and detail-rich autobiography. -- Julianne Malveaux, from the Foreword\u003cbr\u003eA stirring account. * Dispatcher *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Prologue: February 15, 1957 Chapter 4 Childhood Chapter 5 On My Own Chapter 6 Working in Los Angeles Chapter 7 Black Workers on the New Oleans Waterfront Chapter 8 New Orleans and Local 207 Chapter 9 Organizer at Work Chapter 10 Fighting Southern Injustice Chapter 11 On the Road for the Union Chapter 12 Andrew Steve Nelson's Trial Chapter 13 The Government Comes After Me Chapter 14 The Trial of Lee Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49528194990423,"sku":"9780847691913","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/strong-in-the-struggle-my-life-as-a-black-labor-activist-voices-and-visions-people-events-that-made-a-dfference-in-american-life-voices-visions-9780847691913","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}