On November 11, 1952, management at an Armour meatpacking in Fort Worth, Texas took down the signs for segregated bathrooms on the job after signing a new contract with the.
On June 5, 1944, white workers at an airplane plant outside of Cincinnati went on strike over Black workers being promoted. Happening a mere day before the U.S. invaded France.
The story of Levi Strauss is well-known--German-Jewish immigrant who comes to San Francisco, manufactures denim for miners, makes a fortune, and begins the most important jeans company in the world..
For the latest LGM podcast, I interviewed Alford Young, Edgar G. Epps Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, about his 2020 book From the Edge of the Ghetto:.
On May 10, 1913, white gold miners in the Transvaal region of South Africa went on strike in one of the first major strikes in that nation's history and also.
On March 9, 1911, railroad brotherhoods in Kentucky and Tennessee went on strike to protest the hiring of Black workers. This is a prime example of the way in which.
