Research Interests for Robert R. Korstad

Social Policy from an historical perspective

Recent Publications

1. R.R. Korstad and James L. Leloudis, To Right These Wrongs: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty and Inequality in 1960s America (2010) [available here]
2. R.R. Korstad, Civil Rights Unionism and the Black Freedom Struggle, American Communist History, vol. 8 no. 2 (December, 2008), pp. 255-58, ISSN 1474-33892
3. R.R. Korstad, “Could History Repeat Itself? The Prospects for a Second Reconstruction in Post-World War II South Carolina,, in Toward the Meeting of the Waters: Currents in the Civil Rights Movement of South Carolina during the Twentieth Century (2008), University of South Carolina Press, ISBN 978-1-57003-755-9
4. Timothy J. Minchin, The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980, Journal of Southern History, vol. 69 (February, 2003), pp. 226-7
5. Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (2003), The University of North Carolina Press [available here]