The organization of Negroes in the Knights of Labor, by S. H. Kessler.--Samuel Gompers and the Negro workers, 1886-1914, by B. Mandel.--Black workers and labor unions in Birmingham, Alabama, 1897-1904, by P. B. Worthman.--Labor conflict and racial violence: the Black worker in Chicago,...

Free labor -- From Reconstruction to Jim Crow, 1877-1895 -- Blacks and labor in the progressive era, 1900-1920 -- From progressivism to the New Deal, 1920-1935 -- The New Deal and World War -- The civil rights era, 1950-1965 -- The affirmative action dilemma, 1965-present

"This book traces efforts by Black public-sector workers and their unions to combat racial and economic injustice in Baltimore. For decades, civil rights activists had been fighting against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-making. In...