H. L. Mitchell Award
Award Description
The H. L. Mitchell Award is given in 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 preceding two years, it will next be awarded at the 2020 annual meeting in Memphis, TN for books published in 2018 and 2019. Entries should be submitted to the committee members at the addresses listed below before March 1, 2020.
2020 Award Committee
Robert Korstad, Chair
Michelle Gillespie
Todd Moye
Past Winners
2018 - Rashauna Johnson
Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions, Cambridge University Press, 2016.
2016 - Michelle Haberland
Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000, University of Georgia Press, 2015.
2014 - Adrienne Montieth Petty
Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
2012 - Erik S. Gellman and Jarod Roll
The Gospel of the Working Class: Labor's Southern Prophets in New Deal America, University of Illinois Press, 2011.
2010 - Seth Rockman
Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
2008 - Michael K. Honey
Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike: Martin Luther King's Last Champaign, W. W. Norton & Co., 2007
2006 - William P. Jones
The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South, University of Illinois Press, 2005
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
2002 - Brian Kelly
Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921, University of Illinois Press, 2001
2000 - Michael Honey
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle, University of California Press, 1999
1998 - Tera W. Hunter
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War, Harvard University Press, 1997
1996 - No award given.
1994 - Emilio Zamora
The World of the Mexican Worker in Texas, Texas A&M University Press, 1993
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