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Title The black worker from 1900 to 1919 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Ronald L. Lewis.

Publication Info. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, [1980]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 5
Black worker ; v. 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part I: Economic conditions of black workers at the turn of the 20th century. Introduction ; The south ; The north ; Black artisans and mechanics -- Part II: Organized labor and the black worker before World War I. Introduction ; Race relations in the labor movement ; The American Federation of Labor and the black worker ; New Orleans Labor Strike 1907 ; The Alabama Coal Strike ; Georgia Railroad Strike, 1909 -- Part III: The great migration. Introduction ; Exodus to the north ; Letters of Negro migrants, 1916-1918 -- Part IV: The migration and northern race riots. Introduction ; Race riot in East St. Louis, 1917 ; The Chicago race riot, 1919 -- Part V: George E. Haynes and the division of Negro economics. Introduction ; New opportunities raise new questions -- Part VI: Organized labor and the black worker during World War I and readjustment. Introduction ; American Federation of Labor conventions and the black worker ; Race relations and the labor movement ; Black and white in Bogalusa, Louisiana -- Part VII: Socialism, the Industrial Worker of the World, and the black worker. Introduction ; Before the war ; Covington Hall ; Post-war and readjustment.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Employment.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
African Americans -- Economic conditions.
African American labor union members.
African American labor union members.
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 from 1900 to 1919. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©1980 0877221367 (OCoLC)7620516
ISBN 9781439917749 (electronic book)
1439917744 (electronic book)
0877221367
9780877221364