When faced with a locked union hall door, many Black women labor leaders decided to take matters into their own hands and formed their own organizations.
Chicago’s Working Women’s Union No. 1 , and in later years, she threw herself into the Communist Party’s International Labor Defense group. Due to Lucy's militancy, her powerful oratory skills, and her unwavering dedication to the cause, theThese are only a few examples of the amazing Black women labor leaders whose work has shaped the course of history. New leaders are being minted and elected every day.
Black women’s voices have been suppressed and left unrecognized for far too long, even within a workers’ rights movement that they helped build from the ground up. It’s vitally important to learn their history and support their modern-day counterparts’ work, because without Black women, the U.S. labor movement undoubtedly would have been doomed from the start.
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