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Knights of labor

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a secret organization whose professed purpose is to secure and maintain the rights of workingmen as respects their relations to their employers.

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Under the aegis of the Knights of Labor, Jackson Ward politicians and dissident white workers created an independent "Workingmen's Reform" ticket that swept the city council in 1886.
Race, Class and Power in the Building of Richmond, 1870-1920 by Lang, Clarence / Journal of Social History
When whites excluded blacks from their Farmers' Alliance, blacks mobilized their own Colored Farmers' Alliance and Knights of Labor chapters.
Steven Hahn. A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in ... by Perkins-Valdez, Dolen / African American Review
In 1886, 5,000 members of the Knights of Labor conducted the first major strike, against the Iron Mountain Railroad in Arkansas.
Is labor losing its voice? Once a major force in the nation's economy ... by Greenhouse, Steven / New York Times Upfront
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