Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity

Revealing the central role of Black activists in spurring interracial solidarity in the US labor movement.

Most accounts of interracial solidarity focus on white union activists. In Freedom Train, Cedric de Leon, a former organizer and elected leader in the US labor movement, argues that we can't comprehend the history of workers' triumphs in the United States without investigating the role of Black liberation. This book shows that, from the early twentieth century to the years immediately...