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Covering for the BossesLabor and the Southern Press$
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Covering for the Bosses: Labor and the Southern Press

Joseph B. Atkins

Print publication date: 2008

Print ISBN-13: 9781934110805

Published to University Press of Mississippi: March 2014

DOI: 10.14325/mississippi/9781934110805.001.0001

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Labor, Race, and the Mississippi Press

Labor, Race, and the Mississippi Press

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(p.86) Chapter 5 Labor, Race, and the Mississippi Press
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Covering for the Bosses
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Joseph B. Atkins

Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
DOI:10.14325/mississippi/9781934110805.003.0005

This chapter explores the struggles of Southern labor leaders against the Mississippi press. It contends that newspapers in Mississippi have taken anti-union stands, even berating union leaders for promoting racial integration. It notes that newspaper columnists were also blasting labor unions, and even advocating that unions should be kept out of the facilities of Mississippi.

Keywords:   labor unions, labor leaders, newspaper, Mississippi, Mississippi press

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