Category: Labor Movement
WaPo Article on Labor Organizing Among Black Women Laundresses in the South Right After the End of Slavery
Kim Kelly has a new book coming out called Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor that includes a section of Black women…
Reconstructing American Womanhood: War and Change in Women’s Lives
We sometimes mistakenly associate the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras with the “Ideals of Victorian Womanhood,” as though all women sought to nestle inside of…
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September 4 1869: First Black Delegates Seated at a National Labor Union Convention
Prior to the Civil War, black workers were excluded from nearly every “white” labor union in the United States. During Reconstruction, the leaders of the…
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Albert Parsons: Confederate Veteran as Supporter of Black Rights, Miscegenist, and Labor Radical
Not all returning Confederate veterans had the same experiences or attitudes after the Civil War. Albert Parsons is one of the best known radicals of…
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