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This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. Summer 2017 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text Otha Dixon-McKnight Author Department of History College of Arts and Sciences “We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap”: Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. Summer 2017 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text Otha Dixon-McKnight Author Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. Summer 2017 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. Summer 2017 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. Summer 2017 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017-08 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation History Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Degree granting institution Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston; South Carolina; Hospital Workers; Local 1199; SCLC; Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation History Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Degree granting institution Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences "We Shall Not Always Plant While Others Reap": Black Women Hospital Workers and the Charleston Hospital Strike, 1967-1970 Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston, South Carolina, Hospital Workers, Local 1199, SCLC, Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution History Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 Otha Dixon-McKnight Creator Department of History College of Arts and Sciences Charleston, South Carolina prided itself on avoiding the confrontations and unrest associated with the national civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. This peaceful façade, however, masked a history of struggle, and it was dramatically disrupted by a hospital workers strike that emerged from the intersection of the civil rights and labor movements of that era. In 1968, Medical College Hospital of the University of South Carolina and Charleston County Hospital workers, all black and mostly female, began to organize around issues of low wages, racial discrimination and the lack of union representation, eventually turning to Hospital and Nursing Home Workers’ Union Local 1199 in an effort to unionize. Local 1199, in turn, enlisted the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and its community organizing power, thus, initiating a “union power, soul power” campaign by emphasizing the link between labor and civil rights issues at the core of workers’ grievances. The Local 1199-SCLC relationship often overshadowed the hundreds of working-class black women that initiated the movement, resulting in a narrative that largely excluded their story. This dissertation utilizes an array of sources such as oral histories, newspapers, letters, and organization documents to situate the contributions and experiences of black working-class women at the core of the Charleston hospital workers’ movement. This moment in the city’s history sheds light on black women’s roles in the long civil rights and labor movements. In doing so, it urges an ongoing reconceptualization of black female activism in the labor, political and social movements of the twentieth century. 2017 American history African American studies Women's studies Charleston; South Carolina; Hospital Workers; Local 1199; SCLC; Strike eng Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Thesis advisor Jerma Jackson Thesis advisor Robert Korstad Thesis advisor Genna Rae McNeil Thesis advisor Kerry Taylor Thesis advisor text 2017-08 DixonMcKnight_unc_0153D_17172.pdf uuid:5adb71ec-c6a5-47af-9a32-3601660953ef proquest 2019-08-15T00:00:00 2017-07-20T21:46:56Z application/pdf 1121473 yes