Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources
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Labor [Archives of Appalachia]


Microform Collections

FBI File on the Highlander Folk School. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1990. 1 microfilm reel.

Operation Dixie: The C.I.O. Organizing Committee Papers, 1946-1953. [Sanford, N.C.] : Microfilming Corp. of America, 1980. 75 microfilm reels.

The Green Rising, 1910-1977: A Supplement to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers. Glen Rock, NJ: Microfilming Corp. of America, 1977. 17 microfilm reels.
This collection includes the papers of Tennessee native Harry Leland Mitchell (1906-1989).

Southern Tenant Farmers Union Papers, 1934-1970. Glen Rock, NJ: Microfilming Corporation of America, 1971. 60 microfilm reels.
Reviewed in Microfilm Review 3 (January 1974): 54-55.

State Labor Reports: From the First Reports Through 1900. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970-1979.


Selected Books & Articles

Honey, Michael Keith. Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. 402p.
Emphasis on Memphis.

Lewis, Ronald L. "Race and the United Mine Workers' Union in Tennessee: Selected Letters of William R. Riley, 1892-1895." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 36 (Winter 1977): 524-36.




Tennessee History: A Guide to Primary Sources