Higdon Roberts
Southern Exposure Contributor
Higdon Roberts is a professor of labor studies and education at the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was a trade-union activist for 14 years in the railroad, ware housing and construction industries. (1981)
Higdon Roberts has been Director of the Center for Labor Education and Research at the University of Alabama in Birmingham since 1972. His article intersplices entries from his diary with other reflections about labor education in the South. Although new to this region, Roberts has been involved in teaching labor history and training union leaders for many years. He holds a doctorate in political science, is a former member of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, and has been in AFT's Workers Education Local 189 since 1965. (1976)
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Articles by Higdon Roberts
June 1, 1976 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 4 No. 1/2, "Here Come a Wind." Find more from that issue here.
