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INDEX
Abel, I.W., 274
abolitionism, 50–51, 54, 72–74, 77–79, 82–83, 84, 86, 87, 91, 218
abortion, 276
Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 219
ACORN (Association of Communities for Reform Now), 302–3
Adam (Massachusetts slave), 12–13, 17
Adamic, Louis, 185
Adams, Henry (freed slave), 96, 97
Adams, Henry Brooks, 140
Adams, John, 41
Ad-Hoc Committee of Concerned Negro Auto Workers, 261
advertising, and twenties media profit, 179–80
Aetna Life Insurance Company, 176
affirmative action, 288, 289, 314
AFL. See American Federation of Labor (AFL)
AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations)
affirmative action and, 288, 289, 314
Clinton years, 306–7, 308–9, 311–19, 324, 325, 327–28, 329
communism and, 241, 273, 289–90
conservatism, 275, 277, 288
Democratic Party support, 241, 276, 298, 305, 306, 327, 328, 329
early years, 241–44
foreign policies, 272, 273, 292, 293, 311, 325
merger of AFL and CIO, 221, 240–41
minimum wage campaigns, 311, 327
NAFTA and, 306
racism and, 242, 244, 288
Reagan years, 275, 277, 288, 289–90, 292, 293, 298
in seventies, political agenda, 272, 273, 275
in sixties, 247, 260, 267, 270, 272
undocumented workers, 314–15, 321
women and, 242, 289, 302, 314
See also individual affiliates
Africa, 3, 7, 9–10, 11, 36, 140, 291, 310
African American Labor Institute, 245, 289
African Americans, 104, 120, 135, 162, 245, 253
AFL membership, 129–30, 146, 149, 165, 167, 228
American Revolution, 30, 31, 32–34, 36
in CIO, 212, 219, 238
civil rights movement, 247–55, 257
Civil War, 86, 87, 88–90, 91, 97
Communist Party and Socialist Party, 156–57, 163, 167, 190
Democratic Party and, 205
in Depression, 187, 189–90
in Gilded Age, 118, 119, 124, 129–30, 135, 165
in Knights of Labor, 124, 135
labor movements, 67, 74–75, 97, 102–3, 104–5, 129, 130, 135, 190, 194, 195, 212, 225–26, 228, 261, 266, 272
in New Deal, 194, 195
pre-Civil War, 53, 74–75
Reconstruction, 91–92, 93–94, 95, 96–97, 102–3, 104
in sixties, 245, 252–54, 255, 257, 261, 266, 271, 272
voting rights, 50, 91–92, 93, 94, 96, 219
women, 73–74, 87, 89, 91, 225, 266
World War II, 225–27, 228
See also slavery
African Black Brotherhood, 167
African Liberation Day (1972), 254
agribusiness, 113, 200
Agricultural Industrial Workers League, 189
Agricultural Workers Organization (AWO), 159–60
Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), 242, 260
agriculture, 2, 15, 37, 42, 53, 59, 242, 260
in Depression, 189–90
in Gilded Age, 113, 115, 134
in New Deal, 195, 196
sharecropping, 94–95, 96, 115, 189–90, 251
in sixties, 260–61
in twenties, 181, 182, 183, 185
unions and strikes, 183, 185, 189–90, 195, 196, 260–61, 289
Aguinaldo, Emilio, 139
Aid to Families with Dependent Children, 291
Air Line Pilots Association, 326
air traffic controllers’ strike (PATCO), 276–77
airline deregulation, 275
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