Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944 Bibliography

Monographs and articles

Countryman, Matthew. Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Ross, Malcolm, All Manner of Men. New York : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1948.

Winkler, Allan M. “The Philadelphia Transit Strike of 1944,” Journal of American History 59:1 (June 1972): 73-89.

Wolfinger, James. Philadelphia Divided: Race and Politics in the City of Brotherly Love. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

National Archives and Records Administration et al., Our Documents Initiative: Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives
http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=72

Woolley, John T., and Gerhard Peters. The American Presidency Project
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/index.php

“NAACP Sponsored Sit-ins by Howard University Students in Washington, D.C.,” 1943-1944. The Journal of Negro History, 85: 2000, pp 274-286.

Executive Order 9346, Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 2.
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od8802t.html, December 22, 2009.

"Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Accessed 08 Nov. 2012.

Newspapers and Periodicals

“An Appeal to Reason,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 5, 1944.

“40 Years Ago: The Philadelphia Trolley Strike,” Philadelphia Daily News, August 31, 1984.

“Philly Transit Insists on Anti-Negro Contracts: Philly Transit Stands,” Atlanta Daily World, July 27, 1944.

“WLB Tells Union to Get Men Back on Job at Once,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 1, 1944.

“City is Paralyzed by Sneak Attack Led by Disgruntled PRT Union Officials,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 5, 1944.

“Crowds Jam Railway Terminals; Extra Trains Help Relieve Rush,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 1, 1944.

“Union Balked Parley,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 2, 1944.

“Telegrams,” Philadelphia Tribune, August 5, 1944.

“Few Arrests Made For Disorders,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 3, 1944.

“Plants Arranging Own Transport,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 1, 1944.

“Absenteeism in War Plants Here is Averaging About Ten Percent,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 2, 1944.

“Inquirer Editorial Blasts PTC,” Philadelphia Tribune, January 15, 1944.

“War Production Crippled Badly,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 2, 1944.

“Hayes Says Strike Will Cost Lives,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August, 4, 1944.

“Union Balked Parley, Strike Leaders Claim,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, August 2, 1944.

Theodore Spaulding, “Philadelphia's Hate Strike,” The Crisis, September 1944, pp. 281–283, 301

“Trouble in Philadelphia,” Time, August 14, 1944.

Photographs

“SEPTA, Strikes, August 1944,” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and Philadelphia Inquirer photograph collections, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries.