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Ruth Needleman, labor studies, is the author of Black
Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism.
The new book chronicles the lives of five African-American workers
who were born in the South and migrated to northwest Indiana. The
narratives of George Kimbley, William Young, John Howard, Curtis
Strong and Jonathan Comer come from material gleened from interviews
with more than 100 Gary steelworkers. Read more at this Northwest
Phoenix archival site:
http://www.iun.edu/~phoenixn/news/content.php4?story=0430fighters
IU Northwest Web site
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