A Working People: A History of African American Workers Since Emancipation

The United Automobile Workers, in fact, often cooperated with A. Philip Randolph to form the voice of conscience within the merged AFL-CIO after 1955; it also threw financial and logistical support behind the Civil Rights Movement. Reich offers Gary, Indiana, as a vivid example of a city that went from a beacon of racial promise to a Rust Belt nightmare within a single generation. [...]as economic security grew more precarious for all Americans, many one-time allies became rivals.