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In three pages this paper critically reviews Laurie Green’s article published in on this topic. No other sources are listed in the bibliography.
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implications that went far beyond a local labor dispute. Laurie B. Greens extraordinarily insightful article, "Race, Labor, and Gender in 1960s Memphis: I Am a Man and the Meaning
of Freedom" published in Journal of Urban History, flashes back to that time that came to symbolize the divisive issues in America during the late 1960s and were rooted in
the founding and a failed post-Civil War Reconstruction. She considered the events that transpired in Memphis during the 1950s and 1960s within a much greater historical context. They
brought to the public forefront the other social problems that were enslaved within the word racism, and speculated on how labor and gender issues in one city reflected everything that
continues to undermine the promise Thomas Jefferson made in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal." Memphis in March 1968 had been governed by segregationist mayor Henry
Loeb for nearly a decade, and yet the picture the Chamber of Commerce painted a picture of racial harmony for the rest of the United States to encourage corporate interests
to relocate and take advantage of the minority laborers who worked for low wages. The article makes compelling connections between the "plantation mentality" that characterized the American South from
its earliest days through the Civil War and beyond (Green 467). As the article points out, with few exceptions, Memphis was still a cotton-based economy during the 1960s, which
suggests this plantation mentality was easily transferrable from the cotton fields onto the factory floors. When sanitation workers decided to protest their working conditions, what might have been an
isolated incident was given national media attention when the most famous American civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., participated in the March 1968 march. But according to
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