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
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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
Thursday Open Thread: The Filmography of Spike Lee
Good Morning POU! We continue looking at films written and directed by Spike Lee. Malcolm X, sometimes stylized as X, is a 1992 American epic biographical film about the African-American activist Malcolm X. Directed and co-written by Spike Lee, the film stars Denzel Washington in the title role, as well as Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman Jr., and Delroy Lindo. … [Read more...] about Thursday Open Thread: The Filmography of Spike Lee
Saturday Open Thread: The Blackness of Country Music
Bertha Bearden Dorsey was born and raised Jackson, Tennessee. Country music fans got to know her by her stage name, Ruby Falls. It has been written in several sources that she was among the most successful black female country music singers. … [Read more...] about Saturday Open Thread: The Blackness of Country Music