| Description |
1 online resource. |
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data file rda |
| Series |
The Black worker : a documentary history from colonial times to the present ; volume 3 |
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Black worker ; v. 3.
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| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Knights of Labor.
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Knights of Labor. (OCoLC)fst00515587
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African Americans -- Employment.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
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United States -- Race relations.
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African Americans -- Economic conditions.
(OCoLC)fst00799599
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African Americans -- Employment.
(OCoLC)fst00799610
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Foner, Philip Sheldon, 1910-1994, editor.
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Lewis, Ronald L., 1940- editor.
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| 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) |
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1439917701 (electronic book) |
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0877221383 |
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9780877221388 |
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0132085127 |
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9780132085120 |
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