The Negro Labor Committee (NLC) was an organization founded by Frank Crosswaith and others in 1935 to advance African American interests within the American...
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Frank Crosswaith (category American Labor Party politicians)
trade union organizer in New York City who founded and chaired the Negro Labor Committee from 1935 until his death in 1965. He was also appointed the first...
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The American Negro Labor Congress was established in 1925 by the Communist Party as a vehicle for advancing the rights of African Americans, propagandizing...
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The National Negro Labor Council (1950–1955) was an advocacy group dedicated to serving the needs and civil rights of black workers. Many union leaders...
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Workers' Union 1933-1942: Artists Union 1935: Negro Labor Committee 1936: American Labor Party 1936: Negro Actors Guild of America formed 1937: New York...
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Philip Randolph, President, then led by Joseph Overton, head of the Negro Labor Committee. At a cost of $54 million, the Educational Construction Fund developed...
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Carver on 7 May 1943. The ceremonies were organized by the United Negro Labor Committee, and that organization's president, C. L. Dellums, spoke to crowd...
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Harlem Labor Union, founded by Ira Kemp. The organization had a Garveyite black nationalist philosophy, and was opposed by Frank Crosswaith's Negro Labor Committee...
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representative for collective bargaining purposes. 1935 (United States) Negro Labor Committee founded. 1935 (United States) United Auto Workers founded. 1935...
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here, owing to the scarcity of labor, two strange negroes were engaged by some carpenters to help finish a house. Negroes are not allowed to live in that...
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journalist and labor/political activist. In 1891 Taylor left Wisconsin and moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa. He published a weekly newspaper, the Negro Solicitor....
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(MOPR) Labor Defender magazine National Defense Committee National Federation for Constitutional Liberties National Lawyers Guild National Negro Congress...
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Six Committee for Nationalist Action Committee for the Negro in the Arts Committee for Peace and Brotherhood Festival in Philadelphia Committee for the...
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Conference, American Negro Labor Congress, Artists Committee for Protection of Negro Rights, Citizens Committee for the Appointment of a Negro to the Board of...
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Red Summer (section Lusk Committee)
educator employed as director of Negro Economics for the U.S. Department of Labor, wrote: "The return of the Negro soldier to civil life is one of the...
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rights leaders, labor leaders and religious groups. White participation was not excluded. Black workers affiliated with the National Negro Congress advocated...
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refugees of the Spanish Civil War. As head of the women's committee of the National Negro Congress during World War II, she taught about the Soviet Union...
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Employment Practices Committee rules and the War Labor Board policies, in protest; the White workers walked off the job. As a result, the Negro organizers found...
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Labor Conference for Peace National Negro Congress National Negro Labor Council Nature Friends of America Negro Labor Victory Committee New Committee...
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House slave (redirect from House negro)
slaves: "house negroes" who worked in the master's house, and "field negroes" who performed outdoor manual labor. He characterized the house negro as having...
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the Negro Wins, Labor Wins" to the organization's convention in Bal Harbour, Florida. King hoped for a coalition between civil rights and labor that...
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House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the...
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Fort-Whiteman was later named the first national organizer of the American Negro Labor Congress, a mass organization (front group) of the Communist Party USA...
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The Negro Sanhedrin was a national "All-Race Conference" held in the American city of Chicago, Illinois, from February 11 to 15, 1924. The gathering was...
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(January 1946). "The Fair Employment Practice Committee Movement in Perspective". The Journal of Negro History. 31 (1): 30–46. doi:10.2307/2714966. JSTOR 2714966...
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Bois attended the National Negro Conference in New York. The meeting led to the creation of the National Negro Committee, chaired by Oswald Garrison...
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Bernie Sanders (section Committee assignments)
Affairs Committee from 2013 to 2015, the Senate Budget Committee from 2021 to 2023, and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee from 2023...
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1918 as director of the newly established Division of Negro Economics in the Department of Labor, as part of an effort by the Democratic administration...
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Labour movement (redirect from Labor movement)
the labor-hater and labor-baiter is virtually always a twin-headed creature spewing anti-Negro epithets from one mouth and anti-labor propaganda from the...
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Golightly, "Negro Employment in the Federal Government", p. 346. Seidman, American Labor from Defense to Reconversion, p. 217. Seidman, American Labor from Defense...
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