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 Garron. Today we are continuing our discussion on part two of our series on

labor unions. We hop right back into the discussion at the beginning of civil rights, what unions

look like in modern times, and then talk about several examples.

If you haven't listened to Part 1, make sure you go and do that before continuing in this episode. We hope you enjoy the discussion.

Then John Kennedy recognized that labor was crucial to winning the presidency in 1960, which, I mean, yeah, if they're a third of

workers, then you need them on board. So he created the National Labor Relations Board, the NLRB.

And he restricted anti-union propaganda. He allowed picketing. He increased the penalties for

violating labor law and banned employer lockouts

and ensured employee rights that employees had the right to form unions.

By a majority vote.

Yep, through a majority vote.

Yeah.

And that's true today.

So according to Gallup, support for unions peaked in 1959,

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