Part I. The challenge of equal economic opportunity. Condition of the Black worker -- Part II. The AFL-CIO and the civil rights issue. The AFL-CIO and the civil rights struggle ; A. Philip Randolph : "gentleman of elegant impatience" ; The NAACP and the AFL-CIO ; Black civil rights leaders speak before AFL-CIO conventions -- Part III. Radical Black workers. The Black Workers Congress ; Auto ; The Progressive Labor Party ; More Black labor radicalism -- Part IV. The Negro-labor alliance. Negro-Labor Assembly ; Negro American Labor Council ; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists ; Bayard Rustin ; United Steelworkers of America ; Municipal workers ; United Auto Workers ; Building trades -- Part V. 1199 and the Black worker. Overview ; Hospital workers organize ; The struggle in Charleston ; Bread and Roses
Summary
"The final volume delves deeply into the relation between civil rights and labor during the 1950s and 1960s. A notable collection of speeches by civil rights leaders Vernon E. Jordan, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Benjamin Hooks at AFL-CIO conventions is also included. It concludes with documentation of the organizing efforts of Black and Brown hospital workers, an effort widely supported by the civil rights movement and the Black Power movement"--From foreword
Analysis
Labor studies Discrimination in labor unions Racism in labor unions Racial unity in labor Labor movement and civil rights
