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Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia

Thursday, January 11, 2007

Notes for January 10

Corrup Government and Organized Crime
    • Contractors would pay of government officals
    • Politians would create organizations called "machines"
    • Head of machine was the mayor
    • Also get ward bosses to go out to city dwellers to gain trust
African American Labor and Community
  • African Americans stayed to sourthern rural areas
    • Taken advantage by whites
      • Had to accept low prices and buy high prices
    • Found work in coal mines, low jobs because they needed the money
      • Only paid once a month with harsh conditions
  • Jim Crow Laws
    • Legalized segregation and seperation of races
      • Usually only in the South
      • North had prejudice but not laws like Jim Crow Laws
Worker and Unions
  • Workers start to create unions to speak out on harsh conditions created by owners
    • Key group, Knights of Labor, yet still failed
  • Government did not support the unions and sent military to difuse the strike
  • The AFL, American Federation of Labor was for skilled workers but not blacks, immigrants, or unskilled workers.
  • IWW, Industrail Workers of the World, refused to sign contracts with employers that had harsh condition for workers
  • Break out of voilence, Ludlow Massacre, 66 people killed including children as some of the victims

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