Title The Black worker from the founding of the CIO to the AFL-CIO merger, 1936-1955 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis

Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019 ©1983

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Description 1 online resource (666 pages) Series The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 7 Black worker ; v. 7 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." "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 Analysis Labor studies Discrimination in labor unions Racism in labor unions Racial unity in labor Notes Reissued with foreword by Keona K. Ervin Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American Federation of Labor -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) -- History -- Sources Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) -- History -- Sources National Negro Congress (U.S.) -- History -- Sources Southern Tenant Farmers' Union -- History -- Sources March on Washington Movement (Organization) -- History -- Sources United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice -- History -- Sources National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) -- History -- Sources SUBJECT American Federation of Labor fast Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) fast March on Washington Movement (Organization) fast National Negro Congress (U.S.) fast National Negro Labor Council (U.S.) fast Southern Tenant Farmers' Union fast Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) fast United States. Committee on Fair Employment Practice fast Subject African Americans -- Employment -- History -- 20th century -- Sources African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Sources African American labor union members -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Labor unions, Black -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Strikes and lockouts -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources Racism in the workplace -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources African Americans -- Employment. African Americans -- Economic conditions. African American labor union members African Americans -- Economic conditions African Americans -- Employment Discrimination in employment Labor unions, Black Race relations Racism in the workplace Strikes and lockouts SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494 Subject United States Genre/Form primary sources. History Sources Primary sources. Sources. Form Electronic book Author Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor. Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor. Ervin, Keona K., author of introduction, etc. ISBN 9781439917787 1439917787

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