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The IWW and the black worker

A piece by historian Philip Foner on the IWW's efforts to organize black workers and its outlook on race in the United States.

Submitted by Juan Conatz on August 30, 2012
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Originally appeared in The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 55, No. 1. (Jan., 1970)

Foner_PS_-_The_IWW_and_the_Black_Worker.pdf (982.31 KB)
  • racism
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • United States
  • 1910s
  • Philip S. Foner
  • PDF
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