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Title The Black worker during the era of the Knights of Labor / edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 3
Black worker ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- Part II: Should blacks join the ranks of labor? Introduction ; Conflicting views ; A black leader's advice to Negro working men -- Part III: Black labor militancy and the Knights of Labor. Introduction ; Black labor unrest in the south ; The Knights organize southern blacks ; Black workers and Knights of Labor strikes, 1885-1886 -- Part IV: The Knights of Labor Convention in Richmond, 1886. Introduction ; Terence V. Powderly, Frank J. Ferrell, and the integrated convention in Richmond, 1886 -- Part V: Suppression of the black Knights. Introduction ; Opposition to the Knights of Labor in South Carolina ; An overview of the Knights' 1887 Sugar Strike in Louisiana ; Congressional reaction to the Louisiana Sugar Strike -- Part VI: Grand Master Workman Terence V. Powderly and the black worker. Introduction ; Correspondence relating to the black worker in the Powderly papers -- Part VII: Race relations within the Knights of Labor. Introduction ; Relations between black and white Knights from the 1886 Convention to 1889 ; Deportation : the Knights' solution to the problems of the black worker -- Part VIII: Black farmers organize black alliances. Introduction ; The Colored Farmers Alliance and Cooperative Union, 1890-1891 ; The 1891 Cotton Pickers' Strike -- Part IX: Other expressions of black labor militancy. Introduction ; The Savannah Wharf Workers' Strike, 1891 ; Black and white unity : the Chicago Cullinary Alliance.
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Subject Knights of Labor.
Knights of Labor.
African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
United States -- Race relations.
United States.
Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor.
Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Black worker during the era of the Knights of Labor. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1978 0877221383 (OCoLC)5653420
ISBN 9781439917701 (electronic book)
1439917701 (electronic book)
0877221383
9780877221388
0132085127
9780132085120