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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)

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  • racism
  • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
  • United States
  • 1910s
  • Philip S. Foner
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In fact, the Industrial Workers of the World is the only labor federation in the history of the American labor movement which never established a single segregated local.
Philip S. Foner

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