![]() | Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party Subjects: Labor policy -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Labor unions -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century; Democratic Party; In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about how the Democratic Party unintentionally sowed the seeds of labor's decline. Paul Frymer is associate professor of politics and director of the Legal Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (Princeton). |
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