The Black worker during the era of the National Labor Union

"Records central to grasping collective understandings of work, uplift, and racial progress as defined by Black leaders and ordinary Black workers during the late nineteenth century, when debates about racial politics were especially rich, fill the collection’s second volume. Proceedings of the...

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Other Authors: Foner, Philip Sheldon (Editor), Lewis, Ronald L. (Editor), Ervin, Keona K. (Author of introduction, etc.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia Temple University Press 2019©1978, 2019
Series:The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • The call and the response
  • Formation of the Colored National Labor Union and the Bureau of Labor
  • The second and third conventions of the Colored National Labor Union
  • State and local Black labor meetings
  • Local Black militancy, 1872-1877
  • The Ku Klux Klan and Black labor
  • Black socialism and greenbackism
  • Black and White labor relations, 1870-1878
  • The Black exodus