James Robert Green (November 4, 1944 – June 23, 2016) was an American historian, author, and labor activist. He was Professor of History Emeritus at the

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Early life and education

Green was born in 1944, to Gerald and Mary Green in

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, a suburb of Chicago. In 1966, he received a

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from

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. During his time at Northwestern, Green was deeply influenced by three seminal events of 1963: President

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address on national television on June 11; the assassination of civil rights leader

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later that same evening;

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's "

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" speech at the

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on August 28; and the

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on November 22. Green interned in the summer of 1965 and 1966 in the office of

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from

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. While working in the nation's capital, Green met U.S. Senator from

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, and later worked on McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign. Green entered

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

to work on his

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in 1966. He was a member of the Student Strike Coordinating Committee which led a mass rally, teach-in and demonstration on May 1, 1970. More than 15,000 people jammed the Yale campus from Friday through Sunday to protest the arrest and murder trial of

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leader

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Academic career

In the fall of 1970, Green was appointed an assistant professor of history at

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. When the magazine ''Radical America'' moved from

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, to Boston in 1971, Green began writing for the former SDS-run publication, ''Radical America''. An influential 1974 ''Radical America'' article by Green and co-author Allen Hunter outlining the history of

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in Boston prior to the 1974 school-busing crisis, "Racism and Busing in Boston." Green received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1972. Green studied under the legendary historian

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, and became acquainted with the leftist historians

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and

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. During this time he also was involved in the

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, which eventually sparked his interest in the history of radicalism in the

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. Green took a position as a lecturer in history at the

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during the 1975 to 1976 term. He became involved in the British History Workshop, a group of historians who focused research on workers and local movements rather than national trends, markets and large organizations. Green's subsequent work was heavily influenced by the practices of the History Workshop, and he became an active proponent of the "

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" movement in the U.S. In 1977, Green left Brandeis and was appointed an associate professor of history and labor studies in the College of Public and Community Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston. (He was a full professor until he retired in 2014.) In December of that year and into early 1978, Green worked in

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, covering a national

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by coal miners who had defied (for a few days) a Taft-Hartley Act back-to-work order by President

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. In 1978, Green co-founded the Massachusetts History Workshop with

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and Martin Blatt, two other Boston-area labor historians. The project brought workers and academics together to explore labor history and to identify common concerns and issues. He wrote a number of articles on this effort to democratize social history as well as a number of reflections in his autobiographical book
Taking History to Heart
" The project folded in the late 1980s. Oral histories the Workshop collected are now housed at the

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at the

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. Green's interest in radicalism and his experiences in West Virginia led him to become involved in the American labor movement in the 1980s. In 1981, he created a labor studies major at UMass-Boston, and started teaching leadership training workshops for unions such as the

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. In 1995, Green founded the Labor Resource Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston. In 1987, in addition to continuing on the faculty at UMass-Boston, Green was named a lecturer at the Harvard Trade Union Program (now called the Labor and Worklife Program) at

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. In 1998, Green was named a

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and taught at the

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. In the spring of 2008, Green left the College of Public and Community Service and joined the History Department at

where he directed the Master of Arts program in Public History until 2014.

Documentary film work

Green's interest in labor history and involvement in the American labor movement has led him to become involved with a number of

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s. In 1989, Green was supporting coal miners who had struck the Pittston Coal Group. Documentary film-maker

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, commissioned to create a centennial history of the United Mine Workers, was there filming the strike and employed Green as a consultant. The film became ''Out of Darkness: The Mine Workers' Story.'' He received an

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credit on the picture. In 1992 and 1993, Green worked as a research director and consultant on "The Great Depression," an award-winning seven-part documentary series produced by Blackside, Inc. which aired on

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. Afterward, he served on the community advisory board of local

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station,

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, from 1993 to 1994. From 1995 to 1996, Green served as a consultant to the film ''The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers''. The film later aired on PBS. In 2014 the producers of the PBS series

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secured the rights to Green's forthcoming book (Publication Date: Feb. 2015) on the West Virginia Mine Wars. The book, ''The Devil is Here in these Hills,'' will be the basis of documentary film produced by The Film Posse in Boston. The program will air nationwide in 2016.

Research

Green's research focuses on radical political and

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s in the U.S. (including

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s), as well as the history of

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. Green writes social and political history from "the bottom up." He writes from a

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theoretical standpoint. One of Green's earliest published works, ''The World of the Worker,'' is noted for its revisionist take on American labor history. The work came about after historian

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challenged Green to write the history of the American labor movement from a

or rank-and-file perspective. Green's 2000 book, ''Taking History to Heart'', had a deep impact in the academic history community. The book is a semi-autobiographical account of the role historical awareness plays in forging powerful, effective social movements. Writing in a colloquial style, Green discussed how important historical events such as the

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, the

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strike, and the civil rights movement influenced his own life. He vividly describes these events, and ended up not only writing popular historical narratives but showed how those stories encouraged his own participation in various causes. In many ways, the book is a written example of Green's lifelong struggle to take history out of the ivory tower and make it come alive and be relevant to working people and community activists. The book received praise from academics for encouraging the reconnection of academia to society. In 2006, Green published '' Death in the Haymarket'', a

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of the Haymarket riot. Although not noted for its path-breaking research, the book was a best-seller that was reviewed favorably in various publications like ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and was chosen by ''

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'' as one of the best non-fiction books of the year. Green's next book, ''The Devil is Here in these Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and their Battle for Freedom'' was published by Grove Atlantic in 2015.

Memberships and awards

Awards

Green has been the recipient of a number of awards and honors. He was a Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellow in 1966, and he received a grant from the

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in 1977 to deliver a series of public lectures on Boston-area labor unions. In 1977, Green's article, "Tenant Farmer Discontent and Socialist Protest in Texas," won ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' magazine's H. Bailey Carroll Award for the best article published by the journal during the preceding year. In 1983, Green's introduction to the reprint edition of Oscar Ameringer's autobiography, ''If You Don't Weaken'', received the Bryant Spann Memorial Prize from the Eugene V. Debs Foundation as the best scholarly work of the year concerning social reform or radical activism. In 2009,

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presented Green with the Sol Stetin award for his achievements in the field of labor history, "researching and telling the stories of working people's lives."

Memberships and professional positions

From 1971 until the magazine's demise in 1999, Green was part of the editorial collective which oversaw the journal ''Radical America'', and he was a frequent contributor to the publication. In 1995, Green founded the Labor Resource Center at UMass-Boston. Green is a member of the

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(LAWCHA). He was a vice president of LAWCHA from 2001 to 2003 and its president from 2003 to 2005. From 2001 to 2002, Green was an associate editor at ''Labor History''. In February 2004, Green helped organize a revolt by the entire editorial board of the journal ''

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''. The editorial board as well as much of the staff left that publication after a disagreement with publisher

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over the direction of the journal. According to Leon Fink, the former editor of ''Labor History'', the principal issue was maintaining the journal's

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. Green helped negotiate an agreement which led to the founding of '' Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas'', which is co-published by LAWCHA and

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. He served as an associate editor of the new journal until 2009 Green is the former board president of The Welcome Project (TWP) in Somerville, MA. TWP is an organization that works with immigrants and refugees in the city of Somerville. Green has been a member of the

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since 1970. In 2008, he joined the OAH's Distinguished Lecturer program and in 2014 he joined the editorial board of OAH's

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. Green was a Full Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Boston from 1981 to 2014.

Personal life

Green married Janet Grogan in 1987, the couple have one son.

Death

Green died in Boston on June 23, 2016, of complications from

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. He was 71.

Bibliography

Solely authored books

*(1978) ''Grass-Roots Socialism: Radical Movements in the Southwest, 1895-1943'' (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press) (), an expansion of his Yale PhD dissertation, nominated for the

' 1978

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.University of Massachusetts Boston
"The Spectator - Vol. 02, No. 02 - October 20, 1978"
(1978). ''1978-1979, Spectator''. 11. *(1998) ''The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth Century America'' (Paperback reprint ed- first published in 1980) (Champaign, Ill.: University of Illinois Press) () *(2000) ''Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements'' (Amherst:

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) () *(2006) '' Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America'' (New York: Pantheon Books) () *(2015) ''The Devil is Here in These Hills: West Virginia's Coal Miners and Their Battle for Freedom'' (New York: Grove Atlantic) ()

Co-authored books

*(1975) ''The South End'' by Katie Kenneally and James R. Green, vol 14 of the Boston 200 Neighborhood Histories Project *(1979) ''Boston's Workers: A Labor History'' by James Green & Hugh C. Donahue (Boston: Boston Public Library) () *(1996) ''Commonwealth of Toil: Chapters from the History of Massachusetts Workers and Their Unions'' by Tom Juravich, James Green & William Hartford (Amherst, Mass.:

) ()

Solely edited books

*(1983) ''Workers' Struggles, Past and Present: A 'Radical America' Reader'' (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) ()

Solely authored articles

*(1973, August) "

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, 1910-1913: A Radical Response to Industrial Capitalism in the Southern U.S.A" ''Past and Present'' No. 60 *(1978, July/August) "Holding the Line: Miners' Militancy and the 1977-78 Coal Strike" ''Radical America'' 12:4 *(1977, October) "Tenant Farmer Discontent and Socialist Protest in Texas" ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'' 81:2 *(1989) "Workers, Unions, and the Politics of Public History" ''The Public Historian'' 11:2 *(1993, August) "Democracy Comes to Little Siberia: Steel Worker Organizing in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1933-1937" ''Labor's Heritage'' 5:3 *(2003) "Howard Zinn's History," ''Chronicle of Higher Education'' May 23, 2003 *(2004, Spring) "Crime Against Memory at Ludlow" '' Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas'' 1:1

Co-authored articles

*(1974, November/December) "Racism and Busing in Boston" by James Green & Allen Hunter ''Radical America.'' 8:6

Solely authored book chapters

*(1983) "Introduction." In ''"If You Don't Weaken: The Autobiography of Oscar Ameringer"'' by Oscar Ameringer (Reprint edition) (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press) () *(1996) "Tying the Knot of Solidarity: The Pittston Strike of 1989-1990" In ''United Mine Workers of America: A Model of Industrial Solidarity?'' by John H.M. Laslett, (ed. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press), ()

Co-authored book chapters

*(1990) "The Long Strike: The Practice of Solidarity Among Boston Packinghouse Workers, 1954-55" by James Green & Jim Bollen, In ''Labor in Massachusetts 1788–1988, Selected Essays.'' by Martin Kaufman and Kenneth Fones-Wolf, (eds. Westfield, Mass.: Institute for Massachusetts Studies)

References

*Ackerman, John A. "The Impact of the Coal Strike of 1977-1978." ''Industrial and Labor Relations Review.'' 32:2 (January 1979). *Brisbin, Jr. Richard A. ''A Strike Like No Other Strike: Law and Resistance During the Pittston Coal Strike of 1989-1990.'' Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. ()
James Green bio, James Green Web site
*Simpich, Bill. "Lessons from the 1970 Student Strike: Building a Movement That Will Be Stronger After the US Is Out of Iraq." ''Counterpunch.'' May 18, 2006. *''Who's Who in America.'' 58th ed. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who, 2004. ()

External links

H. Bailey Carroll Award, ''Southwestern Historical Quarterly'', Texas Historical Association

Labor and Working Class History AssociationLabor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law SchoolLabor Resource Center, College of Public and Community Service, UMass-Boston''Radical America'' archives, Digital Collections, Brown University Library''Radical America'' Web siteRecords of the Massachusetts History Workshop, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe CollegeWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship FoundationThe Hillman FoundationGrove Atlantic PressJames Green papers, 1964-2010
University Archives and Special Collections, Joseph P. Healey Library,

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