There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality

Published this past Spring by the University of North Carolina Press, There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality focuses on black postal workers and operations primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C.

According to a description on the University of North Carolina Press website, "Black postal workers--often college-educated military veterans--fought their way into postal positions and unions and became a critical force for social change. They combined black labor protest and civic traditions to construct a civil rights unionism at the post office. They were a major factor in the 1970 nationwide postal wildcat strike, which resulted in full collective bargaining rights for the major postal unions under the newly established U.S. Postal Service in 1971. In making the fight for equality primary, African American postal workers were influential in shaping today's post office and postal unions."

Author Philip F. Rubio, Ph.D., a former postal worker, is currently a professor at North Carolina AT State University. His other publications include A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000.

To read the book, click here.