The Black worker since the AFL-CIO merger, 1955-1980

"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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Other Authors: Foner, Philip Sheldon (Editor), Lewis, Ronald L. (Editor), Cvornyek, Robert (Editor), Ervin, Keona K. (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Temple University Press 2019©1984, 2019
Series:The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present
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505 0 |a 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 
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520 |a "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 included. It concludes with documentation of the organizing efforts of Black and Brown hospital workers, an effort widely supported by the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement"--From foreword