The H. L.
Mitchell Award
The H. L. Mitchell Award is awarded
for recognition of a distinguished book concerning the history
of the southern working class, including but not limited to
industrial laborers and/or small farmers and agricultural laborers.
Awarded in even-numbered years for a book published during the
two preceding years, it will next be awarded at the 2014 annual
meeting in Atlanta, GA, for a book published during
2012 and 2013. Entries should be submitted to the committee
members listed below before March 1, 2014.
C. Fred Williams, Chair
(Retired, University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
8214 Reymere Drive
Little Rock, AR 72227
Elizabeth G. McRae
Department of History
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723
Steven A. Reich
Department of History
James Madison University
58 Bluestone Drive, MSC 2001
Harrisonburg, VA 22807
The 2012 H. L. Mitchell Award Committee selected
as co-winners Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll for their book The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America, published by the University of Illinois Press, 2011.
Past Winners
1994 - Emilio Zamora
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 1993
1996 - No award given.
1998 - Tera W. Hunter
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the
Civil War, Harvard University Press, 1997
2000 - Michael Honey
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism,
and the Freedom Struggle, University of California Press, 1999
2002 - Brian Kelly
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921, University of
Illinois Press, 2001
2004 - Robert Korstad
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy
in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South, University of North Carolina Press, 2003
2006 - William P. Jones
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim
Crow South, University of Illinois Press, 2005
2008 - Michael K. Honey
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike: Martin Luther King's
Last Champaign, W. W. Norton & Co., 2007
2010 - Seth Rockman
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
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