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 2024 annual meeting in Atlanta GA for books published in 2024 or 2025. Entries should be submitted to the committee members at the addresses listed below before March 1, 2026.
2026 Award Committee
Cindy Hahamovitch, University of Georgia, Chair 250 Baldwin Street, LeConte Hall University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
Jessica Wilkerson, West Virginia University 314 Chitwood Hall West Virginia University Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
Michael D. Thompson, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga 307 Patten House University of Tennessee, Chattanooga Chattanooga, TN 37403
Past Winners
2024 - Sarah McNamara Ybor City: Crucible of the Latina South, University of North Carolina Press, 2023
2022 - Robert Chase We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America, University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
2020 - Jessica Wilkerson To Live Here You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice, University of Illinois Press, 2019.
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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