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Introduction | |
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Editor's Note | |
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Forging a Civil Rights-Labor Alliance in the Shadow of the Cold War | |
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"A look to the future" | |
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, September 2, 1957 | |
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"It is a dark day indeed when men cannot work to implement the ideal of brotherhood without being labeled communist." | |
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Statement of Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in defense of the United Packinghouse Workers Union of America, Atlanta, Georgia, June 11, 1959 | |
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"We, the Negro people and labor... inevitably will sow the seeds of liberalism." | |
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary Dinner, United Automobile Workers Union, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, April 27, 1961 | |
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If the Negro Wins, Labor Wins | |
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AFL-CIO Fourth Constitutional Convention, Americana Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida, December 11, 1961 | |
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"I am in one of those houses of labor to which I come not to criticize, but to praise." | |
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Thirteenth Convention, United Packinghouse Workers Union of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 21, 1962 | |
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"There are three major social evils...the evil of war, the evil of economic injustice, and the evil of racial injustice." | |
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District 65 Convention, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU), Laurels Country Club, Monticello, New York, September 8, 1962 | |
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Industry knows only two types of workers who in years past, were brought frequently to their jobs in chains." | |
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Twenty-fifth Anniversary Dinner, National Maritime Union, Americana Hotel, New York City, October 13, 1962 | |
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"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy." | |
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Detroit March for Civil Rights, Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, June 23, 1963 | |
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"The unresolved race question" | |
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Thirtieth Anniversary of District 65, RWDSU, Madison Square Garden, New York City, October 23, 1963 | |
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Standing at the Crossroads: Race, Labor, War, and Poverty | |
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"The explosion in Watts reminded us all that the northern ghettos are the prisons of forgotten men." | |
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District 65, RWDSU, New York City, September 18, 1965 | |
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"Labor cannot stand still long or it will slip backward." | |
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Illinois State Convention AFL-CIO, Springfield, Illinois, October 7, 1965 | |
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Civil Rights at the Crossroads | |
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Shop Stewards of Local 815, Teamsters, and the Allied Trades Council, Americana Hotel, New York City, May 2, 1967 | |
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Domestic Impact of the War in Vietnam | |
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National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace, Chicago, Illinois, November 11, 1967 | |
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Down Jericho Road: The Poor People's Campaign and Memphis Strike | |
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"The other America" | |
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Local 1199 Salute to Freedom, Hunter College, New York City, March 10, 1968 | |
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"All labor has dignity." | |
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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) mass meeting, Memphis Sanitation Strike, Bishop Charles Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, Memphis, Tennessee, March 18, 1968 | |
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To the Mountaintop: "Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness." | |
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AFSCME mass meeting, Memphis Sanitation Strike, Bishop Charles Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ, Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968 | |
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Epilogue: King and Labor | |
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Appendix: A Note on the Speeches | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |