Frank Rudolph Crosswaith (1892–1965) was a longtime socialist politician and activist and trade union organizer in New York City. Crosswaith is best remembered as the founder and chairman of the Negro Labor Committee, which was established on July 20, 1935 by the Negro Labor Committee. … [Read more...] about Friday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
Thursday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) was, in 1925, the first labor organization led by African Americans to receive a charter in the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It merged in 1978 with the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks (BRAC), now known as the Transportation Communications International Union. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
Wednesday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU) was founded in 1934 as a civil farmer's union to organize tenant farmers in the Southern United States. Since the Reconstruction era the vast majority of Southern farmers were exploited under semi-feudal labor conditions, paying for their land usage with crops, and easily subject to the whims of the white landowners. Their plight was … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
Tuesday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
The Union League of America (or Loyal League) was the first African American Radical Republican organization in the southern United States and one of the first labor unions. The League was created in the North during the American Civil War as a patriotic club to support the Union. It was officially established in May 1863 when a common constitution was adopted. By late 1863 … [Read more...] about Tuesday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
Monday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement
African-Americans played a significant role in making labor unions more inclusive in expanding their reach. This week's threads will highlight some of those efforts and successes. The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) was an organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Dodge Main assembly plant in Detroit, Michigan. … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: African-Americans and the Labor Union Movement