H.L. Mitchell Award Winners

The H.L. Mitchell Award is given in recognition of a distinguished book concerning the history of the southern working class, including but not limite ...more

Winners

	We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America by Robert T. Chase really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2022)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Jessica Wilkerson 4.18 avg rating — 80 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions by Rashauna Johnson 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000 by Michelle Haberland really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War by Adrienne Monteith Petty 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America by Erik S. Gellman 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2012)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia) by Seth Rockman 4.09 avg rating — 312 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey 4.42 avg rating — 226 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South by William P. Jones 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad 4.19 avg rating — 58 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2004)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 by Brian Kelly 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle by Michael K. Honey 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To 'joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter 4.16 avg rating — 607 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Paperback)) by Emilio Zamora 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings H.L. Mitchell Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars