Preface: the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Oral History Project / Horace Huntley -- Introduction: union activists in industry and in the community / David Montgomery -- Colonel Stone Johnson -- Rev. Joseph Lewis Rogers -- Lloyd Harper -- Elias Hendricks Sr. -- Rosa P. Washington -- James Greene -- Ludie Mae Martin -- Harvey Lee Henley Jr. -- Reuben Davis -- Jerome "Buddy" Cooper -- David P. Earle -- George Price -- Eula McGill -- Mattie Collins Haywood -- Jimmie Louis Warren -- Asbury Howard Jr. -- Luther McKinstry -- Afterword / Odessa Woolfolk