Table of Contents
Foreword Robin D. G. Kelley ix
Preface xxi
1 From Slavery to Freedom 3
2 The Reconstruction Period 17
3 The Colored National Labor Union 30
4 The Knights of Labor and the Black Worker 47
5 The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1881-1915 64
6 The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1881-1915 (Cont.) 82
7 The Railroad Brotherhoods and the IWW, 1890-1915 103
8 The Black Worker on the Eve of World War I 120
9 The Rise of the Black Industrial Working Class, 1915-18 129
10 The AF of L and the Black Worker During World War I 136
11 Postwar Black Militancy 144
12 The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1921-29 158
13 The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 177
14 Black Workers During the Great Depression 188
15 The AF of L and the Black Worker, 1934-35 204
16 The CIO and the Black Worker, 1935-39 215
17 World War II 238
18 The Economic Status of the Black Worker, 1945-55 269
19 The Cold War Witch Hunts and the Black Worker 275
20 The National Negro Labor Council, 1951-55 293
21 The AFL-CIO and the Black Worker: The First Five Years 312
22 The Negro-Labor Alliance, 1960-65 332
23 The Negro-Labor Alliance, 1965-68 355
24 Memphis and Charleston: Triumph of the Negro-Labor Alliance 378
25 Black Power in the Unions 397
26 The Black Worker, 1970-1981 425
Notes 441
Selected Bibliography 468
Index 472