Today's Labor History

Click here to check out this week's Labor History Today podcast. On this week's show: Joe McCartin explores efforts by African-American workers to fight discrimination; Elise Bryant on the 1943 strike by African-American tobacco workers against R.J. Reynolds; sociologist Chris Rhomberg discusses the origins of the 1995 Detroit newspaper strike, and Saul Schniderman on Mother Jones’ rally in Philadelphia for children mutilated in the state's textile mills. Plus the Labor History Object of the Week and this week’s labor music, “Shower of Roses,” by Steve Jones, from “Love Songs from the Liberation Wars.” Union City Radio's Chris Garlock hosts; interviews by Patrick Dixon.

Union and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph and others meet with President Roosevelt about a proposed July 1 March on Washington to protest discrimination in war industries. A week later, Roosevelt orders that the industries desegregate - 1941​
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