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Race and the CIO: Reply to Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Michael Goldfield
Michael Goldfield
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Wayne State University
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Response to Controversy: Race and the CIO
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 46 , Fall 1994 , pp. 142 - 160
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1994

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15. Christopher to Ruttenberg, August 30, 1949, reel 32, SOC papers.

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