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The Black Worker Since the AFL-CIO Merger, 1955–1980—Volume VII: Part III: Radical Black Workers

The Black Worker Since the AFL-CIO Merger, 1955–1980—Volume VII
Part III: Radical Black Workers
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Part I: The Challenge of Equal Economic Opportunity
    1. Introduction
      1. Condition of the Black Worker
        1. 1. Economic Status of Nonwhite Workers, 1955–62
        2. 2. Statement of Whitney M. Young, Jr.
        3. 3. 35% Black Jobless Rate Says Top Economist
        4. 4. Displaced Farm Workers Lose Industrial Jobs in Rural South
        5. 5. Black Workers: Progress Derailed
        6. 6. Last Hired, and Usually the First Let Go
        7. 7. Black Manpower Priorities: Planning New Directions
        8. 8. Black Workers Expose Kaiser Racism
        9. 9. Weber Case Hits Unions, Minorities
        10. 10. High Court Decision Backs Affirmative Action on Jobs
        11. 11. A Kind of 'Tolerance'
        12. 12. Court Oversteps Bounds
        13. 13. Voluntary Affirmative Action Meets Goals of Civil Rights Act
        14. 14. The Weber Decision
        15. 15. Appeal of Black Conservatives Rings Hollow to Workers, Poor
        16. 16. Administration Policies Fail to Address Needs of Blacks
        17. 17. Progress of Black Americans Reversed Under GOP Policies
        18. 18. Where Reaganomics Hits Hardest: Minorities & Women
  9. Part II: The AFL-CIO and the Civil Rights Issue
    1. Introduction
      1. The AFL-CIO and the Civil Rights Struggle
        1. 1. AFL-CIO Merger Agreement
        2. 2. Correspondence to the Merger Convention
        3. 3. Report of the Resolutions Committee on Civil Rights, 1955
        4. 4. What Goes on Here?
        5. 5. New Day Dawns for Negro Labor in AFL-CIO Merger Here
        6. 6. About Randolph and Townsend
        7. 7. Solidarity Forever
        8. 8. AFL-CIO Resolution on Civil Rights, 1957
        9. 9. AFL-CIO Resolution on Civil Rights, 1961
        10. 10. AFL-CIO Resolution on Civil Rights, 1963
        11. 11. AFL-CIO Resolution on Civil Rights, 1965
        12. 12. Statement by the AFL-CIO Executive Council on Civil Rights Act of 1966
        13. 13. Black Power and Labor
        14. 14. AFL-CIO Executive Council Report on Civil Rights, 1967
        15. 15. AFL-CIO Resolution on Civil Rights, 1969
        16. 16. The Fight for Civil Rights Is Alive and Well
        17. 17. AFL-CIO Executive Council Report on Civil Rights, 1975
        18. 18. Real Exercise of Civil Rights Linked to Full Employment
        19. 19. Meany Hails Solidarity of Civil Rights Alliance
        20. 20. Labor's Civil Rights Goals Linked to Demand for Full Employment
        21. 21. A Coalition for People
        22. 22. Lack of Opportunity Thwarts Strides Toward Racial Justice
      2. A. Philip Randolph: "Gentleman of Elegant Impatience"
        1. 23. AFL-CIO Seats Two Negroes
        2. 24. Randolph Says Negro Not Free
        3. 25. AFL-CIO Report on Civil Rights, 1961
        4. 26. Council Rejects Randolph Charges, Backs AFL-CIO Rights Record
        5. 27. Along the N.A.A.C.P. Battlefront
        6. 28. "Take What's Yours—And Keep It!"—Randolph
        7. 29. AFL-CIO Resolution on Negro Civil Rights--Labor Alliance, 1965
        8. 30. A "Freedom Budget" For All Americans
        9. 31. Minutes, A. Philip Randolph Institute
        10. 32. $100 Billion Freedom Fund
        11. 33. Comments on a "Freedom Budget" For All Americans
        12. 34. Phil Randolph, The Best of Men, Touched and Changed All of Us
        13. 35. Randolph's Vision Recalled to Nation
        14. 36. A. Philip Randolph Memorial
        15. 37. House Votes Gold Medal Honoring Phil Randolph
      3. The NAACP and the AFL-CIO
        1. 38. The NAACP Hails the AFL-CIO Merger
        2. 39. Racism Within Organized Labor: A Report of Five Years of the AFL-CIO, 1955–1960
        3. 40. The NAACP vs. Labor
        4. 41. Reflections on the Negro and Labor
        5. 42. AFL-CIO Saves NAACP
        6. 43. Benjamin Hooks, Executive Director, NAACP, to the AFL-CIO Convention, 1979
        7. 44. NAACP to Join Labor's Solidarity Day Protest
        8. 45. Roy Wilkins Provided Strength During Critical Civil Rights Era
        9. 46. Delegates Hit Reagan on Civil Rights Retreat
      4. Black Civil Rights Leaders Speak Before AFL-CIO Conventions
        1. 47. Thurgood Marshall
        2. 48. Martin Luther King, Jr.
        3. 49. Roy Wilkins
        4. 50. Mary Moultrie
        5. 51. Benjamin Hooks
        6. 52. Vernon Jordan, Jr.
  10. Part III: Radical Black Workers
    1. Introduction
      1. The Black Workers Congress
        1. 1. The Black Liberation Struggle, the Black Workers Congress and Proletarian Revolution
        2. 2. Excerpts from the Black Workers Congress Manifesto
        3. 3. Organize the Revolution, Disorganize the State!
        4. 4. Conditions Facing Black and Third World Workers
        5. 5. Black Workers Delegation in Vietnam
      2. Auto
        1. 6. Black Workers in Revolt
        2. 7. Wildcat!
        3. 8. Confront the Racist UAW Leadership
        4. 9. Black Workers Protest UAW Racism
        5. 10. League of Revolutionary Black Workers General Policy Statement, Labor History, and the League's Labor Program
        6. 11. DRUM Beats Will Be Heard
        7. 12. Black Worker Raps
        8. 13. National Workers Program
        9. 14. Black Workers--Dual Unions
        10. 15. Auto Mongers Plot Against Workers
        11. 16. Black Worker Shoots Foremen: Resolve Problem with Management
        12. 17. MARUM Newsletter
      3. The Progressive Labor Party
        1. 18. Black Workers: Key Revolutionary Force
        2. 19. Black Workers Must Lead
        3. More Black Labor Radicalism
        4. 20. Racism and the Workers' Movement
        5. 21. United Community Construction Workers, 1971
        6. 22. Black Workers Fight Imperialism: Polaroid Corporation
        7. 23. Boycott Polaroid
        8. 24. Polaroid Blacks Ask Worldwide Boycott
  11. Part IV: The Negro-Labor Alliance
    1. Introduction
      1. Negro Labor Assembly
        1. 1. Minutes of the Negro Labor Assembly, October 14, 1959
        2. 2. Minutes, Negro Labor Assembly, September 30, 1965
      2. Negro American Labor Council
        1. 3. Keynote Address to the Second Annual Convention of the Negro American Labor Council, November 10, 1961
        2. 4. Unless Something Special Happens
        3. 5. Randolph Fears Crisis on Rights
        4. 6. Negro Jobs for a Strong Labor Movement
        5. 7. Frustration in the Ghettos: A National Crisis
        6. 8. NALC Head Asks Labor Aid March of Poor
        7. 9. Something New in the House of Labor
        8. 10. NALC Delegates Warn Against Redbaiters
        9. 11. NALC Convention Urges Political Action
      3. Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
        1. 12. Conference Proceedings, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
        2. 13. Black Unionists Form Coalition
        3. 14. A Giant Step Toward Unity
        4. 15. Newest Black Power: Black Leaders Building Massive Labor Coalition Inside Unions
        5. 16. Black Caucus in the Unions
      4. Bayard Rustin
        1. 17. Morals Concerning Minorities: Mental Health and Identity
        2. 18. Address to the 1969 Convention of the AFL-CIO, Bayard Rustin
        3. 19. The Blacks and the Unions
        4. 20. Labor's Highest Award Honors Bayard Rustin
      5. United Steelworkers of America
        1. 21. Steelworkers Fight Discrimination
        2. 22. USWA's Civil Rights Program Wins Praise
        3. 23. Address
        4. 24. History of the United Steelworkers of America: Steel Union Buttresses Racism
        5. 25. National Ad Hoc Committee of Concerned Steelworkers Annual Meeting, 1972
        6. 26. Black Steelworkers' Parley Spurs Representation Fight
        7. 27. The Fight Against Racism in the USWA
      6. Municipal Workers
        1. 28. Union Battle Won in Memphis
        2. 29. Memphis: King's Biggest Gamble
        3. 30. Economic Boycott in Memphis to Continue
        4. 31. The Struggle in Memphis
        5. 32. In Memphis: More Than a Garbage Strike
      7. United Auto Workers
        1. 33. Address of Walter P. Reuther Before the Annual Convention of the NAACP, June 26, 1957
        2. 34. There's No Half-Way House on the Road to Freedom
        3. 35. Watts: Where They Manufacture Hope
        4. 36. A Black Caucus Formed in Auto Union
        5. 37. Out of Struggle--Solidarity
        6. 38. Bannon Urges More Opportunity for Minorities to Enter Trades
        7. 39. Black Caucus Builds Black-White Solidarity at Chrysler Plant
        8. 40. Black-White Caucuses Win UAW Offices
        9. 41. Stepp Named First Black UAW Head At Big 3 Plant
        10. 42. Labor, Blacks Meet, Map Political Push
      8. Building Trades
        1. 43. NAACP Battle Front
        2. 44. NY Building Trades Unions Face Discrimination Hearings
        3. 45. Building Trades Take Solid Stand Against Discrimination
        4. 46. Building Unions Boiling Over Gov't. Hiring Ruling
        5. 47. Opposition to Philadelphia Plan
        6. 48. Revised Philadelphia Plan
        7. 49. Black Claims Bias in Union Training Plan
        8. 50. LEAP
        9. 51. Coalition Demands Hiring of Minority Workers
        10. 52. The Bricks and Mortar of Racism
        11. 53. Civil Rights and Church Leaders Warn of Attacks on Black People
  12. Part V: 1199 and the Black Worker
    1. Introduction
      1. Overview
        1. 1. Twenty Years in the Hospitals: A Short History of 1199
        2. 2. Local 1199 Makes Realistic Gains for its Newly-Organized Members
        3. 3. Local 1199 Sparks National Union for Hospital, Nursing Home Workers
      2. Hospital Workers Organize
        1. 4. Hospital Strike is Settled; $40 Minimum, Other Gains Won
        2. 5. One Big Union Established for All Hospital Workers: Local 1199 Hospital Division, AFL-CIO
        3. 6. More Hospitals Organizing into Local 1199
        4. 7. Strike Settlement Sets Stage for Organizing Drive to Build Strong 1199 in Hospitals
        5. 8. The Challenge of Bronxville: 1199 Takes It Up With All-Out Drive to Win Lawrence Hospital Strike
        6. 9. The Bronxville Strike
        7. 10. Truce in Bronxville
        8. 11. Ballad of the Bronxville Hospital Strike
        9. 12. For Sam Smith, Hospital Orderly: A Battle Whose Time Has Come
        10. 13. The Plight of Hospital Workers
        11. 14. Hospital Woes
        12. 15. Pittsburgh: Hospital Workers Fight for Union Rights
        13. 16. Battle in Pittsburgh
      3. The Struggle in Charleston
        1. 17. Hugh A. Brimm, Office of Civil Rights, To Dr. William M. McCord, President of Medical College of South Carolina, September 19, 1968
        2. 18. Carolina Strike Unites Rights, Labor Groups
        3. 19. Mrs. King's Crusade
        4. 20. National Organizing Committee Hospital and Nursing Home Employees
        5. 21. A Gathering Storm in Charleston, S.C.
        6. 22. Text of Speech
        7. 23. The Charleston Coalition
        8. 24. Charleston's Rights Battleground
        9. 25. Text of Address
        10. 26. Charleston: Our Strike for Union and Human Rights
        11. 27. 113-Day Hospital Strike in Charleston
        12. 28. Letters from Charleston Strikers
      4. Bread and Roses
        1. 29. Is This Any Way to Run a Union?
        2. 30. Bread and Roses
        3. 31. Bread and Roses Union Brings Cultural Events to Members
        4. 32. Images of Labor (Gallery 1199)
        5. 33. Strong 'Images of Labor'
        6. 34. "Take Care, Take Care"
        7. 35. United We Laugh
        8. 36. Union Musical to Premiere at Boro Hospital
        9. 37. Hospital Revue Hits 'Home' for Employees
        10. 38. A Revue That's Good Medicine
  13. Notes and Index
  14. Notes
  15. Index

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RADICAL BLACK WORKERS

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