The Black worker since the AFL-CIO merger, 1955-1980 / edited by Philip S. Foner, Ronald L. Lewis and Robert Cvornyek.
"The final volume delves deeply into the relation between civil rights and labor during the 1950s and 1960s. A notable collection of speeches by civil rights leaders Vernon E. Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks at AFL-CIO conventions is also incl...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Temple University Press,
2019.
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| Series: | Black worker ;
v. 8. |
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| Genre/Form: | Primary sources, Speeches |
| Local Note: | JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The challenge of equal economic opportunity. Condition of the Black worker
- Part II. The AFL-CIO and the civil rights issue. The AFL-CIO and the civil rights struggle ; A. Philip Randolph : "gentleman of elegant impatience" ; The NAACP and the AFL-CIO ; Black civil rights leaders speak before AFL-CIO conventions
- Part III. Radical Black workers. The Black Workers Congress ; Auto ; The Progressive Labor Party ; More Black labor radicalism
- Part IV. The Negro-labor alliance. Negro-Labor Assembly ; Negro American Labor Council ; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists ; Bayard Rustin ; United Steelworkers of America ; Municipal workers ; United Auto Workers ; Building trades
- Part V. 1199 and the Black worker. Overview ; Hospital workers organize ; The struggle in Charleston ; Bread and Roses.