38 relations: Air Line Pilots Association, International, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, Cesar Chavez, Civil rights movement, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Coleman Young, Congress of Industrial Organizations, Detroit, Dolores Huerta, Focus: HOPE, Grace Lee Boggs, Industrial Workers of the World, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jerome Cavanagh, Jerry Wurf, Labor history of the United States, Leonard Woodcock, Martin Glaberman, Mel Ravitz, Michigan, Minoru Yamasaki, National Association of Letter Carriers, NewsGuild-CWA, Philip P. Mason, Raya Dunayevskaya, Service Employees International Union, Society of Women Engineers, The South End, United Automobile Workers, United Farm Workers, United States Department of Health and Human Services, Utah Phillips, Walter Reuther, Wayne State University, Workers' Defense League, World War II.
Air Line Pilots Association, International
The Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) is the largest pilot union in the world, representing more than 60,000 pilots from 34 U.S. and Canadian airlines.
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American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) is the largest trade union of public employees in the United States.
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American Federation of Teachers
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is an American labor union that primarily represents teachers.
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Cesar Chavez
Cesar Chavez (born César Estrada Chávez,; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later the United Farm Workers union, UFW) in 1962.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
The Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU) is a nonprofit organization of African American trade union members affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
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Coalition of Labor Union Women
The Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization of trade union women affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
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Coleman Young
Coleman Alexander Young (May 24, 1918 – November 29, 1997) was an American politician who served as mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1974 to 1994.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions in the United States and Canada from 1935 to 1955.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.
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Dolores Huerta
Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is a Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, was the co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
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Focus: HOPE
Focus: HOPE is a Detroit-based, non-denominational, non-profit organization whose aim is to overcome racism and poverty by providing education and training for underrepresented minorities and others.
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Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015) was an American author, social activist, philosopher and feminist.
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Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.
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International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) is a labor union in the United States and Canada.
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Jerome Cavanagh
Jerome Patrick Cavanagh (June 16, 1928 – November 27, 1979) was an American politician who served as the mayor of Detroit, Michigan from 1962 to 1970.
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Jerry Wurf
Jerome "Jerry" Wurf (May 18, 1919 – December 10, 1981) was a U.S. labor leader and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1964 to 1981.
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Labor history of the United States
The labor history of the United States describes the history of organized labor, US labor law, and more general history of working people, in the United States.
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Leonard Woodcock
Leonard Freel Woodcock (February 15, 1911 – January 16, 2001) was President of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the first US ambassador to the People's Republic of China (and the last Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing).
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Martin Glaberman
Martin Glaberman (December 13, 1918 – December 17, 2001) was an American Marxist writer on labor, historian, academic, and autoworker.
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Mel Ravitz
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Minoru Yamasaki
Minoru Yamasaki (December 1, 1912February 6, 1986) was an American architect, best known for designing the original World Trade Center in New York City and several other large-scale projects.
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National Association of Letter Carriers
The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) is an American labor union, representing non-rural letter carriers employed by the United States Postal Service.
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NewsGuild-CWA
The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933.
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Philip P. Mason
Philip Parker Mason is an American archivist and author, as well as the founding director of the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit.
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Raya Dunayevskaya
Raya Dunayevskaya, born Raya Shpigel (Ра́я Шпи́гель; May 1, 1910 – June 9, 1987), later Rae Spiegel, also known by the pseudonym Freddie Forest, was the American founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America.
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Service Employees International Union
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a labor union representing almost 1.9 million workers in over 100 occupations in the United States and Canada.
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Society of Women Engineers
The Society of Women Engineers (SWE), founded in 1950, is a not-for-profit educational and service organization in the United States.
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The South End
The South End is the official student newspaper of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, published in print and online.
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United Automobile Workers
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW), is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada.
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United Farm Workers
The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), also known as the Health Department, is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government with the goal of protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services.
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Utah Phillips
Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008), KVMR, Nevada City, California, May 24, 2008.
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Walter Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther (September 1, 1907 – May 9, 1970) was an American leader of organized labor and civil rights activist who built the United Automobile Workers (UAW) into one of the most progressive labor unions in American history.
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Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU) is a public research university located in Detroit, Michigan.
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Workers' Defense League
The Workers' Defense League is an American socialist organization devoted to promoting labor rights.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_P._Reuther_Library