| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980. By Timothy J. Minchin. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. xiv, 277 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8078-2618-9. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 0-8078-4933-2.)

The Color of Work describes efforts to desegregate the southern paper industry in the years following World War II. Thousands of African Americans worked in the industry, which was spread out across the South. As in other industries, black workers suffered discrimination in skill level and pay, they were forced to use segregated facilities, and they formed separate union locals. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act paved the way for black workers to file discrimination suits against the companies, allowing for some major gains. White workers resisted, however, making the struggle for equality a long and arduous one for black workers. . . .

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