PART I. THE CALL AND THE RESPONSE
CALL FOR THE COLORED NATIONAL LABOR UNION
1. National Labor Convention of the Colored Men of the United States
2. Labor Meeting in Macon, Georgia
4. The Colored Labor Convention, II
5. The Negro Convention on Georgia Outrages
6. The Colored Labor Convention, III
7. The Colored Labor Convention, IV
8. The Colored Labor Convention, V
10. Organization Among the Colored People
11. “At Last the Colored Laboring Men of Georgia Are United”
12. Fruits of the Labor Convention
13. “No Movement is More Important”
14. Letter to Georgia Newspaperman, J. E. Bryant
15. Meeting of the Colored Mechanics and Laboring Man’s Association of Cass County, Georgia
16. Blacks Select Delegates in Rhode Island
17. From the Newport Daily News
19. Maryland Blacks Select Delegates
20. The Labor Convention of Colored Men
21. The South Carolina Convention
24. Another Pennsylvania Meeting
25. Labor Reform Union – New York
26. Black Workers Convene in Texas
27. Colored Labor Convention – Galveston
28. Organization – The Colored People
29. The Colored Labor Convention
30. An Appeal to the Labor Convention
PART II. FORMATION OF THE COLORED NATIONAL LABOR UNION AND THE BUREAU OF LABOR
FORMATION OF THE COLORED NATIONAL LABOR UNION AND BUREAU OF LABOR
1. Proceeding of the (Colored) National Labor Union Convention
2. Constitution of the Colored National Labor Union
3. Address of the National Labor Union to the Colored People of the U. S.
4. Prospectus of the National Labor Union and Bureau of Labor of the United States of America
5. Visit of a Delegation of the Colored National Labor Convention to the President on Saturday
COMMENTS ON THE NATIONAL COLORED LABOR CONVENTION
7. Observations of Samuel P. Cummings, a White Labor Unionist
8. “An Important Step in the Right Direction”
10. An Appeal to Overcome Prejudice
PART III. THE SECOND AND THIRD CONVENTIONS OF THE COLORED NATIONAL LABOR UNION
THE SECOND COLORED NATIONAL LABOR UNION CONVENTION, JANUARY 1871
1. Address to the Colored Workingmen of the United States, Trades, Labor, and Industrial Unions
3. Resolutions Adopted by the Labor Convention
7. The National Labor Convention
11. Senator Sumner to the Colored Men
PART IV. STATE AND LOCAL BLACK LABOR MEETINGS
STATE CONVENTIONS OF BLACK WORKERS
1. Mass–Meeting at Metropolitan Hall, Richmond
2. Call for a New York State Labor Convention
3. New York State Colored Labor Convention
4. The Saratoga Labor Convention
5. Condition of the New York Colored Men
6. Racial Prejudice in New York
7. New York Colored Labor Bureau
9. Proceedings of the Alabama Labor Union Convention
10. Testimony of John Henri Burch
REFERENCES TO THE 1873 ALABAMA NEGRO LABOR CONVENTION
12. Plan to Organize Labor Councils
13. What Does Mr. Spencer Mean?
PART V. LOCAL BLACK MILITANCY, 1872–1877
7. Colored Trouble at Stretcher’s Neck
9. Strikes and What They Teach
11. A Strike in the Railroad Shops
14. How the Radical Party in the Legislature Attempted to Effect a Virtual Confiscation of Lands
16. They Know Not What They Do
19. Laborers’ Strike in Louisiana
22. The Labor Question in Louisiana
23. Trouble in the Sugar Fields
25. Full History of the Affair
27. The Longshoremen’s Protective Union Association
29. Robert Small on the Combahee Strike
32. The Galveston S–rike of 1877
33. Black Washerwomen Strike in Galveston, Texas
34. Report of Meeting of Amalgamated Trade Unions, New York City, July 26, 1877
35. Meeting of Black Workers in Virginia
36. Colored Waiters’ Protective Union
38. Formation of the Laboring Man’s Association of Burke County, Georgia
THE NEW NATIONAL ERA AND THE LABOR QUESTION, 1870–1874
39. Horace H. Day to the Editor of the New National Era
46. Letters to the People – No. 1
47. The Folly, Tyranny, and Wickedness of Labor Unions
PART VI. THE KU KLUX KLAN AND BLACK LABOR
THE KU KLUX KLAN AND BLACK LABOR
PART VII. BLACK SOCIALISM AND GREENBACKISM
1. Clark Addresses the Workingmen’s Party of the United States
2. The Workingmen’s Party Mass Meeting in Robinson’s Opera House Last Night
3. Socialism: The Remedy for the Evils of Society
THE “ALABAMA LETTERS” TO THE EDITORS OF THE NATIONAL LABOR TRIBUNE
6. From Warren Kelley, June 25, 1878
7. Note on W. J. Thomas, July, 1878
8. From Warren Kelley, July, 1878
9. From Warren Kelley, July 29, 1878
10. From Warren Kelley, July 29, 1878
11. From Warren Kelley, July 30, 1878
12. From Warren Kelley, August 17, 1878
13. From “Dawson,” December 28, 1878
14. From W. J. Thomas, January 20, 1879
15. Note from a member, March 1, 1879
16. From “Dawson,” March 28, 1879
17. From “A Close Looker,” March 28, 1879
18. From “Dawson,” April 16, 1879
20. From W. J. Thomas, May 24, 1879
21. From Warren Kelley, May 24, 1879
22. From “Reno,” June 30, 1879
23. From “A Close Looker,” July 6, 1879
24. From “Dawson,” July 25, 1879
25. From “Dawson,” August 5, 1879
27. From “A Close Looker,” August 27, 1879
28. From “Olympic,” September 15, 1879
29. From “Olympic,” October 4, 1879
30. From “New Deal,” October 20, 1879
31. From Michael F. Moran, November 17, 1879
32. From Henry Ovenlid, December 9, 1879
33. A Black Minister Explains his Shift from the Republican to the Greenback–Labor Party
PART VIII. BLACK AND WHITE LABOR RELATIONS, 1870–1878
RACE RELATIONS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE WORKERS
2. “A Fellowship That Shall Know No Caste”
4. Appeal to Colored Labor Unions
7. Convention of the Bricklayers’ National Union, January 9, 1871
8. Editorial Against the Bricklayers’ Stand on the Race Question
10. Resolutions of the National Labor Union Convention, 1871
11. The Eight–Hour Demonstration in New York
16. Memorial Parade in New York
19. International Workingmen’s Meeting, I
20. International Workingmen’s Meeting, II
21. The Internationals – John McMakin’s Address
22. To the International Society
23. The Colored National Labor Union and the Labor Reform Party
25. Report of Commencement Exercises at Philadelphia Institute of Colored Youth
26. Delegates to Founding Convention of the Industrial Congress
29. Negroes Working the Coal Mines . . .
33. “Turned Out Upon the Charity of the World”
34. Our Colored Brothers in the South
37. Adolph Douai’s Suggestion to the International Labor Union
38. “Ignorant, Docile and Peaceable”
THE EXODUS OF BLACK LABOR FROM THE SOUTH
1. The Negro Emigration Movement
2. Contract for Agricultural Laborers, Alabama, 1874
3. Resolution Adopted by Negro Convention – Montgomery, Alabama, December 1, 1874
5. The Labor Question in the South
6. “150,000 Exiles Enrolled For Liberia”
7. Richard H. Cain to Hon. Wm. Coppinger
9. The Land That Gives Birth to Freedom
10. W. P. B. Pinchback Describes the Exodus
14. Urging the Negroes to Move
19. Colored Labor in the South
24. An Englishman’s Perceptions of Blacks in Kansas City
25. Colored Immigrants in Kansas
29. The Tide of Colored Emigration
31. Wrongs of the Colored Race
34. The Arkansas Refugees, III
36. Testimony of Henry Adams Before the Select Committee of the United States Senate . . .
38. “The Advance Guard of the Exodus”