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"You Can't Eat Coal": Women's Social Justice Activism in Appalachia

Jessica Wilkerson, Assistant Professor of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi, discusses her book, "To Live Here You Have to Fight," and the recent history of feminist social justice activism in Appalachia.

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  Fall for Liberation with Maria Harmon

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  Organizing Faculty in Florida with Paul Ortiz

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  The Present and Future of Southern Labor: The UAW’s Historic Win at Volksw…

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  Beyond Norma Rae

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  Southern Exposure at 50: Sue Thrasher, Bob Hall, and Leah Wise

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  Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama

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  Working in the Magic City: Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

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  Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

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  Labor Journalism, Farmworkers, and Reynolds Tobacco with Victoria Boulouba…

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  Citizen and Other: Puerto Rican Farmworkers in the United States

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  Labor, Capital, and Politics in the Industrial South

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  Race, Class, and Communism in the Jim Crow South

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  Politics of the Pantry

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  Southern Sisters and Social Justice in the Jim Crow South

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  Making the Woman Worker

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  Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry