Civil Rights – Organizations – Labor
African Americans and the Knights of Labor (1869-1949)
Founded in Philadelphia in 1869, the Knights of Labor (KOL) was the largest, most important labor union in the 19th...
The Thibodaux Massacre (November 23, 1887)
The Thibodaux Massacre took place in Thibodaux, Louisiana on November 23, 1887. Black sugar cane workers, determined to unionize for...
American League of Colored Laborers (1850-?)
The American League of Colored Laborers (ALCL) was the first black American labor union. It was formed in New York...
National Medical Association (1895- )
The National Medical Association (NMA) was founded in 1895 by African American physicians as an alternative to the white-only American...
United Construction Workers Association
The United Construction Workers Association (UCWA) was founded in 1970 by Tyree Scott, an electrician who had become a Seattle...
Negro Victory Committee (1941-1945)
The Los Angeles Negro Victory Committee was organized in 1941 to protest racial discrimination in industries throughout the city that...
Central Contractors Association
In 1969, Walter Hundley, director of the Seattle Model Cities Program, encouraged local black independent contractors to organize in an...
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) was founded in Tyronza, Arkansas in July 1934 by black and white tenant farmers...
James A. Roston (1864-1924)
Lieutenant James A. Roston was a key organizer for the African American labor movement in Seattle in the early part...
