When the CIO launched a campaign to organize Southern workers in 1946, the region's elite fought back by exploiting fears about race and communism -- and fear remains the biggest obstacle to organizing today, as the UAW's campaign to unionize Nissan's Canton, Miss. plant shows.
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Michael Carter, a pro-union worker at Nissan's plant in Canton, Miss. (Photo by Joe Atkins.)
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Michael Carter, a pro-union worker at Nissan's plant in Canton, Miss. (Photo by Joe Atkins.)