MALCOLM X: THE CONFERENCE

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Black Workers Unity and Resistance to Economic Barbarism

Online Reference : Malcolm X : Research site
Reparations
 

Malcolm X

Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

Discussion Questions

1. Are Black workers the majority of the Black community? Has it always been this way?
2. Has the quality of life changed for Black workers since the days of Malcolm X?
3. Have computers and robots impacted the lives of Black workers?
4. Are trade unions active contributors to the fight for Black liberation?
5. What is the role of Black organizations like the following: 
    a. Black Workers for Justice?
    b. League of Revolutionary Black Workers?
    c. Black Workers Congress?
    d. Coalition of Black Trade Unionists?

Additional Reading  

1. Sterling Spero and Abram Harris, The Black Worker (1931)
2. Joe Trotter and Earl Lewis, African Americans in the Industrial Age: A Documentary History 1915 - 1945 (1996)
3. Philip Foner, Organized Labor and the Black Worker 1619 - 1973 (1974) 
4. William Harris, The Harder We Run: Black Workers Since the Civil War (1982)
5. Dan Georgakas, Detroit: I Do Mind Dying (1975)
6. James Geschmender, Class, Race and Worker Insurgency: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (1977)
7. Patrick Mason, ed., African Americans, Labor, and Society: Organizing for a New Agenda (2001)
 

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