Description:
Local broadcast news pieces on demonstrations, VHS 1996. In 1996, warehouse
workers at a K-Mart distribution center in Greensboro, N.C., objecting that
the overwhelmingly black workforce at that location was paid 40% less than
warehouse workers elsewhere, and objecting to K-Mart's union-busting tactics,
walked out and led protests and a citywide boycott of the retailer. Nelson
Johnson, of Greensboro's Beloved Community Center, and J. Herbert Nelson II
advocated for the warehouse workers and joined the demonstrations.
Subject names:
K-Mart Corporation, Johnson, Nelson, Nelson, J. Herbert II