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 ...

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.

Julie Su, a civil rights attorney who has held numerous state and federal roles focused on labor issues, was formally nominated to be the next secretary of labor by President Joe Biden in late ...

Compare the records of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and you see that the former has done little to protect workers while the latter has ...