ISBN:
0877221383
,
0132085127
,
1439917701
,
9780877221388
,
9781439917701
,
9780132085120
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
The Black worker volume 3
Series Statement:
a documentary history from colonial times to the present
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Black worker during the era of the Knights of Labor
DDC:
331.6396073
Keywords:
Knights of Labor
;
African Americans Economic conditions
;
African Americans Employment
;
Race relations
;
African Americans ; Economic conditions
;
African Americans ; Employment
;
Knights of Labor
;
United States
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
Part I: The condition of black workers in the south. Introduction ; Blacks testify before the Senate Committee on Relations Between Labor and Capital, 1883 -- Part II: Should blacks join the ranks of labor? Introduction ; Conflicting views ; A black leader's advice to Negro working men -- Part III: Black labor militancy and the Knights of Labor. Introduction ; Black labor unrest in the south ; The Knights organize southern blacks ; Black workers and Knights of Labor strikes, 1885-1886 -- Part IV: The Knights of Labor Convention in Richmond, 1886. Introduction ; Terence V. Powderly, Frank J. Ferrell, and the integrated convention in Richmond, 1886 -- Part V: Suppression of the black Knights. Introduction ; Opposition to the Knights of Labor in South Carolina ; An overview of the Knights' 1887 Sugar Strike in Louisiana ; Congressional reaction to the Louisiana Sugar Strike -- Part VI: Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly and the black worker. Introduction ; Correspondence relating to the black worker in the Powderly papers -- Part VII: Race relations within the Knights of Labor. Introduction ; Relations between black and white Knights from the 1886 Convention to 1889 ; Deportation : the Knights' solution to the problems of the black worker -- Part VIII: Black farmers organize black alliances. Introduction ; The Colored Farmers Alliance and Cooperative Union, 1890-1891 ; The 1891 Cotton Pickers' Strike -- Part IX: Other expressions of black labor militancy. Introduction ; The Savannah Wharf Workers' Strike, 1891 ; Black and white unity : the Chicago Cullinary Alliance.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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