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The Black Worker During the Era of the Knights of Labor: Volume III: Contents

The Black Worker During the Era of the Knights of Labor: Volume III

Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: THE CONDITION OF BLACK WORKERS IN THE SOUTH

Introduction

BLACKS TESTIFY BEFORE THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS BETWEEN LABOR AND CAPITAL, 1883

1. Testimony

PART II: SHOULD BLACKS JOIN THE RANKS OF LABOR?

Introduction

CONFLICTING VIEWS

1. Frederick Douglass on the Labor Question

2. The Vital Labor Problem

3. Proscribed

4. Labor Upheavals

5. Growth of the Colored Press

6. John R. Lynch on the Color Line in the Ranks of Labor

7. Land–Labor Problem

8. The Colored Laborer Must Look to Himself

9. A Word on the Labor Question

10. A Case in Point

11. A Knight is a Knight

A BLACK LEADER’S ADVICE TO NEGRO WORKING MEN

12. The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him

PART III: BLACK LABOR MILITANCY AND THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR

Introduction

BLACK LABOR UNREST IN THE SOUTH

1. Negro Strikers in Louisiana

2. Labor Troubles

3. The Labor Troubles

4. The St. John Strikers

5. Louisiana Strike

6. Strike in Florida

7. A Labor Riot in Missouri

8. Working in Unison

9. Labor vs. Capital

10. The Labor Riots

11. Another Police Murderer

12. Cheering Words

13. Murdered by a Mob

THE KNIGHTS ORGANIZE SOUTHERN BLACKS

14. Assemblies of Colored Men

15. Constitution for the Local Assemblies of the Order of the Knights of Labor in America

16. Knights of Labor Meeting in Washington, D.C.

17. Plain Talk to Workingmen

18. Description of a Public Meeting

19. Social Affair

20. Baltimore Labor Parade

21. First Black Assembly

22. Black Cooperative Ventures

23. The Richmond Co–Operative Soap Company

24. Letter from a Black Knight

25. Strides in the South

BLACK WORKERS AND KNIGHTS OF LABOR STRIKES, 1885–1886

26. Paralyzed

27. A General Strike

28. Arbitrators at Work

29. Labor Troubles at Galveston

30. Arbitration in Galveston

31. Boycott Renewed

32. Congressional Report on the Labor Troubles in Missouri

33. The Dangers of Organizing Blacks

34. Colored Knights of Labor

35. Striking Negro Knights

36. Colored Knights of Labor in Arkansas

37. The Futility of Strikes and Boycotts

38. In Case of Necessity

39. Stirred Up

40. Sheriff R. W. Worthen

41. Discharged

42. Anonymous Threats

43. A Card From the Fox Brothers

44. War in Young

PART IV: THE KNIGHTS OF LAVOR CONVENTION IN RICHMOND, 1886

Introduction

TERENCE V. POWDERLY, FRANK J. FERRELL, AND THE INTEGRATED CONVENTION IN RICHMOND, 1886

1. Knights of Labor in Their Mettle

2. Frank J. Ferrell’s Introduction of Powderly

3. Powderly’s Address

4. Powderly to the Richmond Dispatch

5. The Colored Brother

6. He Sits Among the Whites

7. Social Equality of the Races

8. Colored Knight Ferrell

9. A Sample of National Reactions to the Knights Position on Social Equality

10. The Mozart Association in Connection With the Color Question

11. The Knights and Southern Prejudice

12. J. M. Townsend to Terence Powderly

13. Samuel Wilson to Terence Powderly

14. James Hirst to Terence Powderly

15. D. H. Black to Terence Powderly

16. “Tradesman” to Terence Powderly

17. Negro Press Committee to Terence Powderly

18. A. O. Hale to Terence Powderly

19. Letter From a White Virginia Knight

20. At Work at Last

21. Richmond and the Convention Held Up

22. Resolutions of the Equal Rights League, Columbus, Ohio

23. Resolution Adopted By an All–Black Local Assembly, Rendville, Ohio

24. A Peaceful Parade

25. Powderly on Race Rights

26. They Will Find Out Facts

27. Banquet in Honor of District Assembly 49

28. The Mixed Banquet at Harris’s Hall

29. Disaffection

30. How Their Stand Against Prejudice is Regarded By the Colored Press

31. Mr. Powderly and Social Equality

32. The Knights of Labor Show the White Feather

33. An Imprudent Position on Social Equality

34. Powderly’s Straddling

35. Importance of the Richmond Convention

36. A Footnote on Frank J. Ferrell

PART V: SUPPRESSION OF THE BLACK KNIGHTS

Introduction

OPPOSITION TO THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR IN SOUTH CAROLINA

1. Industrial Slavery in the South

2. Fighting the Knights

3. Much Bitter Feeling

4. The Trouble in the South

5. Hoover’s Negro Dupes

6. Free Speech in the South

AN OVERVIEW OF THE KNIGHTS’ 1887 SUGAR STRIKE IN LOUISIANA

7. The Knights Strike Sugar

8. A Planter’s View: Excerpts From the William Porcher Miles Diary

9. Conflict in the Louisiana Sugar Fields

10. Sugar Labor – Demands

11. Sugar Labor

12. Sugar Labor – The Strike Inaugurated

13. Protection From Riot and Violence

14. Labor Troubles

15. Laborers Shot Down

16. Backbone of the Strike Broken

17. The Teche Troubles

18. Deserted Cane Fields

19. Labor Troubles in the Sugar Districts

20. The Sugar Strike

21. The Teche Troubles – Planter Shot by Striker

22. Gone to Work

23. Nine Men Killed

24. The Labor Troubles – Killing of Negroes

25. The Sugar Strike – Negroes Threaten Sheriff

26. The Sugar Strike

27. Labor in the South

28. The Louisiana Strikes

29. The Knights of Labor

30. Sugar Plantation Laborers

31. Sugar Planters’ Association of Louisiana

32. Labor Troubles in Lafourche

33. Riot at Thibodaux

34. Peace Restored – Troops at Thibodaux

35. The Thibodaux Riot

36. The Sugar District Troubles

37. The Thibodaux Riot – Three More Dead

38. Thibodaux – Ringleader’s Surrender Not Accepted

39. The Thibodaux Troubles

40. The Militia in Thibodaux

41. The Sugar Strike

42. A Northern View of the Thibodaux Troubles

43. Colored People – Denounce Killings

44. Outrages in Louisiana

45. The Sugar Riots

46. W. R. Ramsay to T. V. Powderly

47. Labor’s Pageant – Workingmen of New Orleans on Parade

CONGRESSIONAL REACTION TO THE LOUISIANA SUGAR STRIKE

48. From the Congressional Record

PART VI: GRAND MASTER WORKMAN TERENCE V. POWDERLY AND THE BLACK WORKER

Introduction

CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO THE BLACK WORKER IN THE POWDERLY PAPERS

1. Powderly to Wm. J. Stewart

2. Powderly to Brother Wright

3. Robert D. Dayton and Gilbert Rockwood to Powderly

4. Joe B. Kewley to Powderly

5. Powderly to M. W. Pattell

6. Gilbert Rockwood to Powderly

7. Powderly to S. T. Neilson

8. John R. Ray to Powderly

9. An Open Letter on Race to Powderly

10. “The South of To–Day,” by Powderly

11. John R. Ray to Powderly

12. Powderly to J. M. Broughton

13. John R. Ray to Powderly

14. P. M. McNeal to Powderly

15. Powderly to Thomas Curley

16. Tom O’Reilly to Powderly

17. Powderly to W. H. Lynch

18. Alexander Walker to Powderly

19. D. B. Allison and Edward Gallagher to Powderly

20. R. W. Kruse to Powderly

21. H. G. Ellis to Powderly

22. R. W. Kruse to Powderly

23. J. A. Belton to Powderly

24. C. V. Meustin to Powderly

25. V. E. St. Cloud to Powderly

26. W. H. Sims, M.D., to Powderly

27. J. M. Broughton to Powderly

28. Frank Johnson to Powderly

29. S. F. S. Sweet to Powderly

30. George H. Williams to Powderly

31. Petition to Powderly

32. Fourth of July Celebration Announcement

33. Powderly to J. M. Bannan

34. Powderly to J. O. Parsons

35. Powderly to C. A. Teagle

36. Andrew McCormack to Powderly

37. B. W. Scott to Powderly

38. Powderly to B. W. Scott

39. B. Stock to Powderly

40. Hillard J. McNair to Powderly

41. J. A. Bodenhamer to Powderly

42. C. C. Mehurin to Powderly

43. C. E. Yarboro to Powderly

44. John Derbin to Powderly

45. Powderly to Rev. P. H. Kennedy

46. Samuel G. Searing to Powderly

47. Powderly’s Open Letter to Secretary of the Treasury Charles Foster

PART VII: RACE RELATIONS WITHIN THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR

Introduction

RELATIONS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE KNIGHTS FROM THE 1886 CONVENTION TO 1889

1. No Color Line Wanted

2. Ida B. Wells Describes a Knights of Labor Meeting in Memphis

3. A Florida Strike

4. Persecution

5. Knightsville is Solid

6. Glorious 4th

7. He Is On Our Side

8. A Cruel Negro

9. A Pittsburgh Strike

10. Letter From A Colored Knight

11. Mustering Up Courage

12. An Active Part

13. Lively Southern Knights

14. Knights of Labor

DEPORTATION: THE KNIGHTS’ SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEMS OF THE BLACK WORKER

15. Speak Out

16. A Black Worker to James R. Sovereign

17. Opinion of the Chicago Colored Women’s Club

18. Our Labor Problem

19. On Deportation

20. Epitaph

PART VIII: BLACK FARMERS ORGANIZE BLACK ALLIANCES

Introduction

THE COLORED FARMERS NATIONAL ALLIANCE AND COOPERATIVE UNION, 1890 – 1891

1. History of the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union

2. The Order System

3. Southern Grangers

4. Why Has the Negro of the Plantation Made So Little Progress?

5. Laying Out the Work

6. Farmers of West Florida

7. H. H. Perry to Elias Carr, President, Colored Alliance of North Carolina

8. The National Alliance Advises

9. Gen. R. M. Humphrey Writes From Pulaski, Tennessee

10. The National Alliance Organ of the Colored Alliance

11. The Alabama Mirror Notes a Gratifying Fact

12. The National Alliance

13. Election Bill

14. The Colored Alliance: Annual Address of the National Superintendent

15. Unsavory Senator

16. The Race Problem

17. J. J. Rogers to Elias Carr

18. W. A. Patillo to Elias Carr

19. J. J. Rogers to Elias Carr

20. People’s Party Convention

21. A Great Absurdity

22. Colored Farmers Alliance Meets

23. The Convict Lease System

24. Camp Meetings

25. Notice

26. Afro–Americans and the People’s Party

27. Split Among Whites

28. The Rankest Bourbon

29. When Thine Enemy Speaks Well of You

30. The Southern Alliance—Let the Negro Take a Thought

31. Social Equality

32. Endorsed By the Colored Farmers

THE 1891 COTTON PICKERS’ STRIKE

33. The Cotton Pickers—A Formidable Organization

34. Negroes Form a Combine

35. Colored Cotton Pickers

36. Not a Bit Alarmed

37. The Cotton Pickers’ League

38. Won’t Hurt Georgia

39. This State is Safe

40. Gathering Cotton

41. The Georgia Pickers

42. President Polk’s Menace

43. Still Snatching Cotton

44. It Did Not Develop

45. A Flash in the Pan

46. President L. L. Polk – Probability of a Third Party

47. The Exodus of Negroes

48. Negro Cotton Pickers Threatening

49. Delta Troubles

50. A Bloody Riot in Arkansas

51. Blood and Terror

52. The Cotton Pickers’ Strike

53. Blacks in Brakes—Lee County Riots

54. Race Riot in Arkansas

55. Nine Negroes Lynched

56. Prisoners Lynched

57. The Arkansas Man Hunt

58. Force Against Force

59. Wholesale Lynching

60. The Arkansas Butchery

61. Frightful Barbarities

62. Those Wholesale Murders

63. Peace Prevails

64. All Serene Now

65. There Was No Lynching

PART IX: OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF BLACK LABOR MILITANCY

Introduction

THE SAVANNAH WHARF WORKERS’ STRIKE, 1891

1. They Strike Today

2. To Patrol Under Arms

3. One Thousand Men Out

4. The Strike Ordered On

5. The Strike Spreading

6. To The Public

7. Progress of the Strikers

8. Strikers Won’t Give In

9. Bringing in Labor – Strikers’ Places Being Filled

10. The Mistake of the Strikers

11. The Strike is Settled

12. Strikers to Resume Work This Morning

13. Badly Advised

14. Strikers Splitting Up

15. Strikers Are Still Out

16. The Strike At An End

17. The Strike Ended

18. Looking Over Things

19. The Alliance in Line

BLACK AND WHITE UNITY: THE CHICAGO CULLINARY ALLIANCE

20. Limited Options

21. The Limited Movement

22. The Chicago Waiters’ Strike

23. History of the Union Waiters’ Strike

24. Leaders of the Cullinary Alliance

NOTES

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