HIST 4061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nelson Lichtenstein, National Labor Relations Board, Affidavit
13 Aug 2016
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Robert korstad and nelson lichtenstein opportunities found and lost: Civil rights advocacy was becoming a defining characteristic of urban liberalism: thus ten states established fair employment practice commissions between 1945 and. 1950, and four major cities- chicago, milwaukee, minneapolis, and philadelphia- enacted tough laws against job bias. In the south, black workers proved exceptionally responsive to such union campaigns, especially in industries like lumber, furniture, and tobacco, where they were sometimes a majority of the work force. This opportunity passed, there was a 10 year long decline in working-class black activism caused by 3 elements: 1: the employer offensive of the late 1940s put all labor on the defensive. The employers" campaign proved particularly effective against many recently organized cio locals with disproportionate numbers of black members. Big unions became less responsive to the particular interests of black members. Company r. j. reynolds never reached accommodation with union labor.
