I don't know what most white people in this country feel, but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.

Now, this is the evidence.

You want me to make an act of faith risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children, on some idealism which you assure me

exists in America, which I have never seen. Welcome back to Black History for White People,

a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge white people about Black history. I'm Brad,

and on today's show are my co-host Katina and

Garum. Today's topic is Labor Unions and this is going to be part one of part two, so make sure

that you listen to this before you listen to part two. We're going to hear about some racism

and some racial massacres, but we're also going to hear about some racial solidarity that

caused real change. So we dive into what are labor unions,

what are strikes, what the collective action looks like within the labor force. Talk about the

violent history and walk through what it looked like pre-emansipation in Jim Crow. We talk about one of

the first large scale attempts at labor unionization.

Talk about some events in St. Louis, the CIO, and then we walk all the way up to civil rights,

which is what we're going to hit on in part two. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Okay, we're going to talk about labor unions.

Karen, where do we even begin with that?

I think there's probably somewhat of a history of people know what a union is,

but let's start this off.

What do we need to know?

Yeah, so we're going to talk about segregation and solidarity in industry, in labor.

And so we're going to hear about all kinds of stuff,

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