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 2010 annual
meeting in Charlotte, NC for a book published during
2008 and 2009. Entries should be submitted to the committee
members listed below before March 1, 2010.
Dr. Nan E. Woodruff (committee chair)
Department of History
Weaver Bldg.
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16801-5500
Dr. C. Fred Williams
Department of History
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2801 University Ave.
Little Rock, AR 72204-1099
Dr. Laurie Beth Green
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts
University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station B7000
Austin, TX 78712
The 2008 H. L. Mitchell Award Committee selected
as the winner Michael K. Honey's Going Down Jericho Road, The Memphis Strike: Martin Luther King's
Last Champaign, published by W. W. Norton & Co., 2007.
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
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