New Orleans Black Worker Organizing History

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https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1a9Q_oSjBKLjDwpOegoFQARPw4W0VpGxNDJwk_Jz86kM&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

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http://hdl.handle.net/11603/41140

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UMBC American Studies Department

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Author/Creator ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8278-8545

Date

2014

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websites
Interactive Resource

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Citation of Original Publication

Fouts, Sarah, Colette Tippy, Alfred Marshall, and Toya Ex Lewis. “New Orleans Black Worker Organizing History.” NOWCRJ, 2014. https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/timeline3/latest/embed/index.html?source=1a9Q_oSjBKLjDwpOegoFQARPw4W0VpGxNDJwk_Jz86kM&font=Default&lang=en&initial_zoom=2&height=650

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Abstract

This project chronicles the black labor movement in New Orleans (named earlier as Bvlbancha). We start the timeline in the reality of a slave-based society and move through the decades to arrive at today's neoliberal capitalist order of low-wage and fractured work force. Building resistance through organizing for people power was as necessary then as it is now. Here you will find visual and audio stories and information about the Black Workers' Movement, grounded in this place.