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
A. Phillip Randolph
Monday Open Thread: Black Labor Leaders
Happy Labor Day! A. Phillip Randolph was born in 1889 in the deeply segregated South. When he was reduced to performing menial labor despite an outstanding academic record, he headed north - to Harlem. Amid the fervor of the Harlem Renaissance, he encountered the socialism of Eugene Debs, became a renowned soapbox orator and, with Chandler Owen, founded the magazine The … [Read more...] about Monday Open Thread: Black Labor Leaders