An Unmistakably Working-Class Vision: Birmingham's Foot Soldiers and Their Civil Rights Movement.

The article discusses the Civil Rights efforts of African American laborers in Birmingham, Alabama from the Great Depression to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the subjects considered include the impact of labor unions and World War II on labor policies towards African Americans; the historiography of the American Civil Rights Movement; the work experiences of employees of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad such as Colonel Stone Johnson and Reuben Davis; the African American union Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers (BLFE); and the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court civil rights case brought by Bester William Steele known as Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Co.