AFROAM 236 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: National Negro Congress, United Automobile Workers, Ralph Bunche
19 Sep 2016
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Whites didn"t want blacks to have jobs until all whites were employed. Fdr elected in 1932 (new deal ignored aa"s: opposed ending segregation, didn"t support anti-lynching laws, 60% of aa"s were unable to take advantage of social security. Wagner national labor act 1935: validate union authority returns power to workers, can demonstrate for better pay/benefits. Whites superior to blacks vs. rich superior to poor: blacks can never take over the white labor force. 1940 over 200,000 aa"s are members of cio. Labor oriented cmr 1940"s: looks like an integrated movement along the lines of class, about economics and labor. 1936 national negro congress ralph bunch and john davis. James baldwin speaker, writer: nat king cole singer. Black population is more educated, proletarian, rise of black capitalism and culture: naacp 450,000 aa members, million black workers in cio. Economy booms, aa"s are last to get jobs: a phillip randolph 1941 march on washington (dc) 100,000.
