Rosalyn Pelles brings her experience as a former labor organizer and retired director of the Civil, Human and Women’s Rights Department of the AFL-CIO to North Carolina’s Forward Together ...

But what the movie didn't reveal was the role played by the labor movement in the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., and its part in propelling the civil rights movement forward at so many ...

Hyundai, one of the largest employers in the state of Alabama, has been urged by a group of 15 civil rights organizations and labor unions, including the United Auto Workers and NAACP, to help ...

In 1961√, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to the United Auto Workers about what the civil rights movement had learned from the labor movement. He said that, in the 1930s√, “you creatively ...

Randolph first pushed for a civil rights march on Washington in 1941. He led efforts to organize the march more than two decades later, in 1963. King often acknowledged labor's role in his work.

Ellison said he got the idea for the bill from a book called Why Labor Organizing Should Be A Civil Right, written by Century Foundation fellows Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit.

Eric Alterman examines the reasons for the declining strength of labor unions and considers whether workers have a civil right to organize. In this July 2, 1964, file photo, President Lyndon B ...

Understanding the civil rights movement as a labor and economic movement. Legalized segregation was an economic system that determined people’s livelihoods, says history professor Robin D.G. Kelley.