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The Black Worker During the Era of the National Labor Union—Volume 2: Table of Contents

The Black Worker During the Era of the National Labor Union—Volume 2

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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

THE RESPONSE

2. Labor Meeting in Macon, Georgia

3. The Negro Labor Union

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

9. The Colored Convention, VI

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

18. The Virginia Convention

19. Maryland Blacks Select Delegates

20. The Labor Convention of Colored Men

21. The South Carolina Convention

22. The Labor Convention

23. A Pennsylvania Meeting

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

6. The Colored Convention

7. Observations of Samuel P. Cummings, a White Labor Unionist

8. “An Important Step in the Right Direction”

9. From Missouri

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

2. National Labor Union

3. Resolutions Adopted by the Labor Convention

4. National Labor Union

5. The National Labor Union

6. Sound Policy

7. The National Labor Convention

8. Editorial Correspondence

9. Address

10. The Other Side

11. Senator Sumner to the Colored Men

12. The Labor Convention

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

8. The Long Shore Men

9. Proceedings of the Alabama Labor Union Convention

10. Testimony of John Henri Burch

REFERENCES TO THE 1873 ALABAMA NEGRO LABOR CONVENTION

11. The Labor Convention

12. Plan to Organize Labor Councils

13. What Does Mr. Spencer Mean?

PART V. LOCAL BLACK MILITANCY, 1872–1877

ORGANIZED LOCAL ACTIVISM

1. Strikes in Alabama

2. British Vice Consulate

3. British Vice Consulate

4. Department of State

5. Department of State

6. Department of State

7. Colored Trouble at Stretcher’s Neck

8. Labor and Capital

9. Strikes and What They Teach

10. Strike at the Saw Mills

11. A Strike in the Railroad Shops

12. Strike in Jacksonville

13. Colored Communism

14. How the Radical Party in the Legislature Attempted to Effect a Virtual Confiscation of Lands

15. What Does it Mean?

16. They Know Not What They Do

17. Trouble in Terrebonne

18. War in Terrebonne

19. Laborers’ Strike in Louisiana

20. Labor Troubles

21. War in Terrebonne

22. The Labor Question in Louisiana

23. Trouble in the Sugar Fields

24. The Terrebonne War

25. Full History of the Affair

26. The Terrebonne Prisoners

27. The Longshoremen’s Protective Union Association

28. Strike of Rice Harvesters

29. Robert Small on the Combahee Strike

30. Labor Movement

31. Strike in St. Louis

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

37. Oyster Schuckers Strike

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

40. The Workingman’s Party

41. The True Labor Reform

42. The Labor Question

43. “To Let Live”

44. Co–operative Societies

45. A One–Sided View

46. Letters to the People – No. 1

47. The Folly, Tyranny, and Wickedness of Labor Unions

48. From Alabama

49. Labor Union

PART VI. THE KU KLUX KLAN AND BLACK LABOR

THE KU KLUX KLAN AND BLACK LABOR

1. Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Spartanburgh, S.C.

2. Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Columbia, S.C.

3. Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Yorkville, S.C.

PART VII. BLACK SOCIALISM AND GREENBACKISM

PETER H. CLARK AND SOCIALISM

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

4. An Editorial Reply

5. A Plea for the Strikers

THE GREENBACK–LABOR PARTY

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

19. From “Reno,” May 13, 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

26. From D. J., August, 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

34. The People’s League

35. Arkansas Greenbackers

PART VIII. BLACK AND WHITE LABOR RELATIONS, 1870–1878

RACE RELATIONS BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE WORKERS

1. A Question of Color

2. “A Fellowship That Shall Know No Caste”

3. “Loyalty” and “The Nigger”

4. Appeal to Colored Labor Unions

5. The Fifteenth Amendment

6. “Damned Niggerism”

7. Convention of the Bricklayers’ National Union, January 9, 1871

8. Editorial Against the Bricklayers’ Stand on the Race Question

9. Laborers’ Strike Settled

10. Resolutions of the National Labor Union Convention, 1871

11. The Eight–Hour Demonstration in New York

12. Negro Hate Triumphant

13. More Convict Labor Wanted

14. Procession in Nashville

15. Women of Color

16. Memorial Parade in New York

17. The Apprentice Question

18. Interrogatory

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

24. Closed Against Us

25. Report of Commencement Exercises at Philadelphia Institute of Colored Youth

26. Delegates to Founding Convention of the Industrial Congress

27. A Mechanic’s Ideas

28. Colored Labor

29. Negroes Working the Coal Mines . . .

30. Negro Competition

31. Coal Miners’ Strike

32. From Kentucky

33. “Turned Out Upon the Charity of the World”

34. Our Colored Brothers in the South

35. Capitalistic Press

36. Convict Labor in Georgia

37. Adolph Douai’s Suggestion to the International Labor Union

38. “Ignorant, Docile and Peaceable”

39. Labor in the South

40. House Committee Testimony

THE LABOR LEAGUE

41. Address of the Central Council of the Labor League of the United States to His Excellency Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States

PART IX. THE BLACK EXODUS

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

4. Deluded Negroes

5. The Labor Question in the South

6. “150,000 Exiles Enrolled For Liberia”

7. Richard H. Cain to Hon. Wm. Coppinger

8. The Labor Question South

9. The Land That Gives Birth to Freedom

10. W. P. B. Pinchback Describes the Exodus

11. An Appeal for Aid

12. Leaving Misery Behind

13. Why Blacks are Emigrating

14. Urging the Negroes to Move

15. The Southern Fugitives

16. The Western Exodus

17. The Southern Refugees

18. Freedom in Kansas

19. Colored Labor in the South

20. Report of the Committee on Address to the National Conference of Colored Men of the United States, May, 1879

21. Negro Colonization

22. The Negro’s New Bondage

23. Southern Labor Troubles

24. An Englishman’s Perceptions of Blacks in Kansas City

25. Colored Immigrants in Kansas

26. Blacks in the West

27. The Appeal from Kansas

28. The Colored Refugees

29. The Tide of Colored Emigration

30. The Exodus to Liberia

31. Wrongs of the Colored Race

32. The Arkansas Refugees, I

33. The Arkansas Refugees, II

34. The Arkansas Refugees, III

35. The Exodus Question

36. Testimony of Henry Adams Before the Select Committee of the United States Senate . . .

37. Nicodemus

38. “The Advance Guard of the Exodus”

39. Labor in the Far South

40. Interview with Sojourner Truth

NOTES

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