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/
Docks https://www.bet.com/article/q7rnlq/the-overlooked-legacy-of-black-dockworkers-forging-justice-on-americas-waterfronts
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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