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Challenging the Roadblocks to Equality: Race Relations and Civil Rights in the CIO 1935-1955.
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Stevenson, Marshall F., Jr. – 1991
In the early 1940s the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) created its Committee to Abolish Racial Discrimination (CARD), whose members were pioneers in the attempt within the U.S. labor movement to overcome the divisiveness of racial discrimination. Although the CIO's racial policies were a significant advancement over those of the…
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