Drawing on scores of interviews with black and white tobacco workers in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Robert Korstad brings to life the forgotten heroes of Loc

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This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black free