Communications Workers of America members pointing at a door where strikers threw eggs and smashed windows at the 6th Avenue exchange of the Southern Bell Telephone Company in Birmingham, Alabama.

Communications Workers of America members pointing at a door where strikers threw eggs and smashed windows at the 6th Avenue exchange of the Southern Bell Telephone Company in Birmingham, Alabama.

They are carrying signs that reads, "C.W.A. on Strike Against Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co." and "C.W.A. on Strike Because Southern Bell Rejected Arbitration." In 1955, CWA members staged a successful 72-day strike against Southern Bell. This photograph was publishe...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dean, Norman
Format:	Electronic
Published:	Alabama Department of Archives and History
Subjects:	Photographs
Online Access:	http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/amg/id/86783

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