Contemporary Article: American League of Colored Laborers: 1850-?
Subject
Samuel Ward
Title
Contemporary Article: American League of Colored Laborers: 1850-?
Date
2011
Type
Contemporary Article
Description
Black Past features a 2011 article, written by Jonathan Bradley, providing an account of Frederick Douglass' organizing of the American League of Colored Laborers (ACLC), the first Black American labor union (1850). According to the source, the League named Samuel Ringgold Ward its minister and Henry Bibb of Michigan its secretary. The source describes how the ACLC functioned as a collective in New York City for skilled free craftsman.
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Black Past
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“Contemporary Article: American League of Colored Laborers: 1850-?,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 14, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/277.