Can the UAW Finally Organize the South?
Postwar failure to arrange the South established bigotry and business greed. Now there's an opportunity to course-correct.
Hyundai employees on an assembly line at a plent in Montgomery, Alabama. (Robert Sullivan/ Getty)
It was the week before school began, and my mom and I had actually pulled into the parking area at Korvette's-- a discount rate outlet store in Northeast Philadelphia-- prepared to pack up on pencils, pens, structure note pads, and other materials, when she stopped dead and stated we were going in other places. Observing my confusion, she stated just, "We do not cross picket lines." Therefore started my political education.
Several years later on, at Country associate editor Andrew Kopkind's kitchen area table in Vermont (where much of my greater political research stu...