Black Workers: A foundation
Abdul Alkalimat / Gerald Mcworter
Black Workers
A Foundation
History
States
Organizations
Industrial sectors
History
Timeline
https://teachingsocialstudies.org/2025/07/09/african-american-labor-history-timeline/
National Archive
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1997/summer/american-labor-movement.html
Smithsonian Photo Essay
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/african-americans-at-work
Howard University
https://socialwork.howard.edu/african-americans-and-labor-honoring-legacy-work-and-social-justice
US Department of Labor
https://www.dol.gov/general/aboutdol/history/blackstudiestext
States
Virginia
https://thecommonwealthinstitute.org/tci_blog/richmond-labor-organizing-history/
North Carolina 1943
https://speakoutsocialists.org/june-1943-when-black-workers-took-the-lead-in-north-carolinas-freedom-struggle/
Mississippi 1965
https://snccdigital.org/events/mississippi-freedom-labor-union-founded/
Tennessee 1968
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMPyjYUocM
Georgia 1972
https://archive.org/details/202228_Wildcat_At_Mead
Alabama 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDzL_2EP0mU
Louisiana 2026
https://www.nowcrj.org/
Organizations
A Philip Randolph Institute
https://www.apri.org/
AFL-CIO Racial Justice Commission
https://racial-justice.aflcio.org/
Black Workers for Justice
https://bwfj.org/
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
https://cbtu.nationbuilder.com/
League of Revolutionary Black Workers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Revolutionary_Black_Workers
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
https://www.msworkrights.org/
National Black Workers Center
https://nationalblackworkercenters.org/
Industrial Sectors
Auto
https://reuther.wayne.edu/node/10107
Building Trades
https://www.facingsouth.org/black-builders-century
Coal
https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/entries/16
https://centerforcoalfieldjustice.org/2023/06/black-history-in-the-coalfields/
Federal
https://www.epi.org/publication/black-federal-workers-by-state/
Health
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9731575/
Logistics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvyMY-SIxZE
Railroad
https://www.nps.gov/gosp/learn/historyculture/african-american-railroad-workers.htm
Skill Trades
https://www.ecmag.com/magazine/articles/article-detail/black-workers-underrepresented-in-the-trades
Steel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steelworkers_and_Shipyard_Workers_for_Equality
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