". . . a very valuable, highly original manuscript based on primary research and sound judgments that grow directly from the evidence."—Gregg Andrews, Southwest Texas State University, author of City of Dust: A Cement Company Town in the Land of Tom Sawyer and Shoulder to Shoulder? The American Federation of Labor, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution, 1910–1924

"Obadele-Starks has produced the long-awaited study of Black unionism in the important Upper Gulf Coast of Texas between the late 1800s and the second world war. Black Unionism in the Industrial South is indispensable in reconstructing a more complete and representative historical record of minority and workers struggles in the United States."—Emilio Zamora, Department of History, University of Houston

". . . compelling and powerful . . . An important contribution to the new scholarly literature on race and labor, Black Unionism in the Industrial South adds considerably to our understanding of the history of civil rights and labor struggles in the twentieth century."——Eric Arnesen, Department of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, author of Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863–1923