Discover the significant role of A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman porters in fighting economic discrimination. Learn about their impact on the labor movement and civil rights.

Cunningham, an associate professor in the Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, recently published a book ...

Discover how faith and labor leaders continue to fight for justice, inspired by the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.

American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.” This, of course, is good advice for any biographer, and I ...

Black labor leaders fought for workers of color, trailblazing work that continues as the Trump administration strips away key protections.

White supremacists killed five people in a 1979 shootout in North Carolina. Mr. Johnson later led a commission that ...

Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Tower of Strength in the Labor ... labor leader still offer for America's laborers, labor organizers, scholars, and women's rights and racial justice activists today.

Burroughs is one of many Black labor leaders who have fought to secure ... also quickly became instrumental in the broader Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. “He’s a pivotal ...