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Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980

by tom44 on November 14, 2018

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Hiring the Black Worker: The Racial Integration of the Southern Textile Industry, 1960-1980

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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. Using previously untapped legal records and oral history interviews, Timothy Minchin crafts a compelling account of the integration of the mills.
Minchin argues that the role of a labor shortage in spurring black hiring h