Crossroads of Protest: Historical Connections Between Racial Justice and Other Justice Movements
There are both historical and ongoing connections between the movement for racial justice and other social movements. This guide highlights the historical connection between the racial justice movement and the fight for a broad range of human rights.
Labor and Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Women striking for fair wages at the Memphis Furniture Company. Date unknown. (c1970s?), photographer unknown.
Print Books about Labor and Economic Rights and Racial Justice
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865 by Publication Date: 2007-10-26
Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle by Publication Date: 2000-01-03
Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History by Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by ISBN: 9780252066368Publication Date: 1997-12-01
African Americans, Labor and Society: Organizing for a New Agenda by Publication Date: 2001-04-01
eBooks about Labor and Economic Rights and Racial Justice
To March for Others: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers by Publication Date: 2017-10-06
Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry by Publication Date: 2011-05-02
A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism by Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Reverend Addie Wyatt: Faith and the Fight for Labor, Gender, and Racial Equality by Publication Date: 2016-09-30
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980 by Publication Date: 2003-01-14
Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party by Publication Date: 2011-06-27
Videos about Labor and Economic Rights and Racial Justice
Websites about Labor and Economic Rights and Racial Justice
- African Americans and the American Labor MovementIn depth article documenting the use of federal records to depict the history of Black Americans and the labor movement.
- How Black Activists Shaped the Labor MovementOverview of the historical struggles of Black American workers and their contributions to the broader struggle for workers' rights.
- Oakland Marches for Racial JusticeOn May Day 2015, Oakland union members and supporters rallied in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and in protest of police killings.
- A House Divided: African American Workers Struggle Against SegregationExplores the links between the fight for fair employment and the fight for civil rights. Includes links to primary documents.
