Hiring the Black Worker

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 inte...