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The 1933 Conference That Helped Forge Civil Rights Unionism

Eben Miller Jacobin
Ninety years ago this month, at the Amenia conference co-organized by W. E. B. Du Bois, young black leftists argued for a mass politics aligned with the labor movement. Their radical approach set the stage for the civil rights unionism that would hel
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