Labor Organization
African Americans and the Knights of Labor (1869-1949)
Founded in Philadelphia in 1869, the Knights of Labor (KOL) was the largest, most important labor union in the 19th...
Virden, Illinois Race Riot (1898)
The Virden, Illinois Race Riot was an example of the combination of labor and racial violence in the late 19th...
American League of Colored Laborers (1850-?)
The American League of Colored Laborers (ALCL) was the first black American labor union. It was formed in New York...
United Construction Workers Association
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott, an electrician who had become a Seattle...
Organized Labor in the 21st Century: The Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226
In February 2008, the Las Vegas Hotel and Culinary Workers Union Local 226 emerged on the national political scene with...
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) was founded in Tyronza, Arkansas in July 1934 by black and white tenant farmers...
Ted Watkins (1922-1993)
Born into poverty and racial segregation in Meridian, Mississippi in 1922, Ted Watkins became a civil rights and union activist...
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Local 8 (1913-ca. 1928)
Local 8 was an interracial, multiethnic local that was part of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a militant,...
Colored Marine Employment Benevolent Association (1921-1934)
The Colored Marines Employment Benevolent Association (CMEBA) was organization that united black maritime cooks and stewards who were seeking employment...
