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African American Labor History LinksAfrican American Labor HistoryFirsts in Black Labor History (Illinois Education Association) Building Bridges: The Challenge of Organized Labor in Communities of Color — by Robin D.G. Kelley, New York University African Americans and the American Labor Movement — by James Gilbert Cassedy, Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, Summer 1997, vol. 29, no. 2 Black Workers Remember — by Jacqueline Jones, The American Prospect, vol. 11, no. 15, June 19 - July 3 2000. The Power of Remembering: Black Factory Workers and Union Organizing in the Jim Crow Era — by Michael Honey, Organization of American Historians, 3/13/2001 Answers.com: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Isaac Myers, 1835-1891 — organized the Colored National Labor Union, first national black labor organization, in 1869 African American Miners in the United Mine Workers of America Benjamin H. Fletcher — African American labor organizer. In 1913, Fletcher organized black dock workers into the Marine Transport Workers Union in Philadelphia under the Industrial Workers of the World. The Story of Hosea Hudson: Lessons of a "Black worker in the deep South" still loom large — Communist Party member and CIO organizer in the 1930's Biography and Papers of Ernest Calloway, 1909-1989 — African American political activist and labor organizer, president of St. Louis NAACP. James Rapier — organizer for the Colored National Labor Union (Illinois Education Association/Wayback Machine copy) Earl George — first African American president of a union local in Washington State (ILWU Local 9); helped found the National Negro Labor Council in 1951. Coleman Young, 1918-1997 — organizer and director for the Congress of Industrial Organizations' United Public Workers in 1946; helped form the National Negro Labor Council and served as the organization's only national organizer; first African American mayor of Detroit. (Illinois Education Association/Wayback Machine copy) Rosina Tucker, 1881-1987 — founder and secretary-treasurer of the International Ladies' Auxiliary and a force in the establishment of its parent organization, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Lucy Parsons, 1853-1942 — Industrial Workers of the World leader Maida Springer-Kemp: Pittsburgher instrumental in labor unions in Africa — by Yevette Richards, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2/28/2000. International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union organizer in the 1930s; first African-American business agent in the ILGWU; first African-American woman to represent the AFL internationally.
Paul Robeson 1898-1976 — This educational packet contains considerable material on the singer's support of African American labor struggles, including the National Labor Conference for Negro Rights Frederick Douglass — abolitionist and vice president of the National Colored Labor Union in 1868. (Illinois Education Association/Wayback Machine copy) The Black-Labor Alliance: Strengthening the Partnership for Economic Justice by Tom Donahue, AFL-CIO League of Revolutionary Black Workers — by A.Muhammad Ahmad. African-American labor organization formed in Detroit in the 1960s Black Workers and the Labor Movement — Chapter 7 from Introduction to Afro-American Studies: A Peoples College Primer by Dr. Abdul Alkalimat Charleston on the Black Waterfront — by Howard Zinn, 1/20/2001: "Just after the Civil War, black dockers in Charleston and Savannah Georgia struck for wages and against a poll tax. The Charleston men had formed their own union, the Longshoremen’s Protective Union Association. ..." Atlanta Washerwomen's Strike — 1881 strike by the Washing Society, an association of African American washerwomen in Atlanta, GA.; free registration required 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' StrikeCourt Documents Related to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Memphis Sanitation Workers — National Archives and Records Administration Images of the Struggle — photos of the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike from the Memphis Civil Rights Research Consortium I Am a Man: An Exhibit Honoring the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike — Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University Dreams That Never Died: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis — Commercial Appeal; free registration required Strike Toward Freedom: The Politics of Paternalism in Memphis and Charleston — by Steve Estes, Sonoma State University The Memphis Sanitation Strike: Oral History — scroll down for link to audio file Pathfinder: Memphis Sanitation Strike, 1968 — Rhodes College Library African American Labor History — Books and Films"I Am a Man" — 1st chapter of Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gerald L. Posner. Deals with 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. "At the River I Stand" — 1993 film about the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers'strike "A. Philip Randolph: For Jobs and Freedom" — 1996 film about A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters "Miles of Smiles, Years of Struggle" — 1983 film about the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters "Struggles in Steel: the Fight for Equal Opportunity" — 1996 film about the history of African American steelworkers from 1875 to the present. The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners 1878-1921 — by Daniel Letwin, University of North Carolina Press, 1998 Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters — by Melinda Chateauvert, University of Illinois Press, 1997 Black Workers Remember : An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle George Gund Foundation Imprint in African American Studies by Honey, Michael K. Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1999. African-American Workers (Cornell University) Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945 — by Beth Tompkins Bates, University of North Carolina Press, 2001 Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader — by Yevette Richards, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2000 African-Americans, Labor and Society: Organizing for a New Agenda — edited by Patrick L. Mason, Wayne State University Press, 2001 Black Unionism in the Industrial South — by Ernest Obadele-Starks, Texas A & M University Press, 1999 Martin Luther King, Jr.Martin Luther King, Jr. - Biography by Clayborne Carson
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change African American History - GeneralThe African American Journey (World Book Encyclopedia) We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement (National Park Service) Facts for Features: African American History Month 2006 — Bureau of the Census |
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