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The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 7 |
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Black worker ; v. 7.
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| Note |
Reissued with foreword by Keona K. Ervin. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access |
Open access. |
| Contents |
Part I: The Congress of Industrial Organization and the Black worker, 1935-1940. Introduction ; The Congress of Industrial Organization and the Black workers ; Steel Workers' Organizing Committee ; Tobacco workers ; Black seamen ; The National Negro Congress -- Part II: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union. Introduction ; STFU and Black sharecroppers ; The Missouri roadside demonstration of 1939 -- Part III: The Black worker during World War II. Introduction ; Blacks and the war economy ; The March on Washington Movement ; Fair Employment Practices Committee ; The FEPC and discrimination at west coast shipyards ; The Philadelphia "hate strike," 1944 ; The CIO and the Black worker -- Part IV: The American Federation of Labor and the Black worker, 1936-1945. Introduction ; The AFL and racial discrimination ; Selected AFL Convention resolutions on Black labor -- Part V: The post war decade, 1945-1955. Introduction ; The National Negro Labor Council ; Paul Robeson and the Black worker ; The AFL-CIO merger proposal. |
| Summary |
"Volume seven is among the richest of the collection because of the high rates of labor union mobilization and worker self-organization that went on during the 1930s and 1940s. The Congress of Industrial Organizations and its mass organizing efforts that included Black workers receives considerable attention. The organizing efforts of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, which we learn supported federal anti-lynching legislation, the National Negro Congress, and the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union are documented through sources drawn from Black newspapers, Communist publications such as The Daily Worker, library archives, the records of civil rights organizations, and the papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt." |
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"A. Philip Randolph's March on Washington Movement of the 1940s and the fight over the Fair Employment Practices Committee and the series of AFL conventions in which Randolph introduced multiple anti-discrimination resolutions, reveal organizing efforts in the watershed years of wartime mobilization and the influence of industrial democracy as a widespread political aspiration. The postwar period concerns the organization of the National Negro Labor Council, which played an important role in infusing an emphasis on jobs and economic justice into a national civil rights platform, and the work of the activist Paul Robeson and the illuminating publication Freedom, his radical newspaper"--From foreword. |
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Print version record. |
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American Federation of Labor -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
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Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
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National Negro Congress (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
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Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- History -- Sources.
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March on Washington Movement (Organization) -- History -- Sources.
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United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice -- History -- Sources.
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National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) -- History -- Sources.
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American Federation of Labor
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
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March on Washington Movement (Organization)
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National Negro Congress (U.S.)
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National Negro Labor Council (U.S.)
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Southern Tenant Farmers' Union
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Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.)
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United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice
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African Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Sources.
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African American labor union members -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Labor unions, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Racism in the workplace -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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African Americans -- Employment.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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United States -- Race relations.
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Noirs américains -- Travail.
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Noirs américains -- Conditions économiques.
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États-Unis -- Relations raciales.
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Noirs américains -- Travail -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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Noirs américains -- Conditions économiques -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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Syndiqués noirs américains -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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Syndicats noirs -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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Racisme en milieu de travail -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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États-Unis -- Relations raciales -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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African American labor union members
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African Americans -- Economic conditions
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African Americans -- Employment
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Discrimination in employment
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Labor unions, Black
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Race relations
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Racism in the workplace
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Strikes and lockouts
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
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1900-1999
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| Indexed Term |
Labor studies Discrimination in labor unions Racism in labor unions Racial unity in labor |
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primary sources.
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History
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Sources
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Primary sources.
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Sources.
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| Added Author |
Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor.
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Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
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Ervin, Keona K., author of introduction, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Black worker from the founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO merger, 1936-1955. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1983 0877221979 (OCoLC)10148618 |
| ISBN |
9781439917787 (electronic bk.) |
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1439917787 (electronic bk.) |
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0877221979 |
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9780877221975 |
