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Informationen zum Autor Travis Sutton Byrd is an independent historian and writer who lives in Asheville, North Carolina. A historical consultant for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, he has lectured on union history in the South at various forums and symposiums. The 1991 recipient of the Thomas Wolfe Prize for Short Fiction, he was also the Madison County, North Carolina, site director for the statewide Support Our Schools program. Klappentext Drawing on never-before-utilized sources! including minutes of corporate board meetings! union rosters! scrapbooks kept by local residents! courtroom testimony! a wide assortment of news reports! and ballads written by striking workers! Travis Sutton Byrd has woven together a complex and arresting account of the strikes the southern textile belt in 1929. Zusammenfassung Drawing on never-before-utilized sources! including minutes of corporate board meetings! union rosters! scrapbooks kept by local residents! courtroom testimony! a wide assortment of news reports! and ballads written by striking workers! Travis Sutton Byrd has woven together a complex and arresting account of the strikes the southern textile belt in 1929.
