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New York City Central Labor Council ( NYCCLC) is the largest local labor membership organization under the direction of the national AFL–CIO. Founded in 1959 the NYCCLC represents over 400 local New York City unions in both the public and private sectors of the New York economy. [2] Of the 11 million total workers represented by the AFL–CIO ...
The League of United Latin American Citizens ( LULAC) is the largest and oldest Hispanic and Latin-American civil rights organization in the United States. [ 2] It was established on February 17, 1929, in Corpus Christi, Texas, largely by Hispanics returning from World War I who sought to end ethnic discrimination against Latinos in the United ...
Convention of 1832. The Convention of 1832 was the first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas. Delegates sought reforms from the Mexican government and hoped to quell the widespread belief that settlers in Texas wished to secede from Mexico. The convention was the first in a series of unsuccessful attempts at political negotiation ...
The Communications Workers of America ( CWA) is the largest communications and media labor union in the United States, representing about 700,000 members in both the private and public sectors (also in Canada and Puerto Rico ). [ 1][ 2] The union has 27 locals in Canada via CWA-SCA Canada (French: Syndicat des communications d'Amérique ...
African Americans left Texas by the tens of thousands during the Great Migration in the first half of the 20th century, seeking work and political opportunities elsewhere. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, African Americans were 11.8% of the state's population which mirrors the national average of 12.1%.
Sunday Break was a rock festival held in Austin, Texas, the first of Mayday Productions, on May 2, 1976. [1] The event was first scheduled for Saturday, May 1, but was then moved to the morrow Sunday to avoid a conflict with an election. [2] The chosen 130-acre (53 ha) site [1] was located near the northeast corner of the intersection of ...
Vladeck was able to make use of personal connections to convince the New York Central Labor Council (CLC) and the Tamiment Institute, still headed by Ben Josephson, to co-sponsor the creation of the new labor archive. In 1977, New York University was brought on board and together the three entities established the new labor archive, named after ...
Invisible in Austin: Life and Labor in an American City (U of Texas Press, 2015). Busch, Andrew. "Building" A City of Upper-Middle-Class Citizens": Labor Markets, Segregation, and Growth in Austin, Texas, 1950–1973." Journal of Urban History (2013) online; Humphrey, David C. Austin: A history of the capital city (Texas A&M University Press ...