Internet Resources Related to This Lesson:

Roosevelt University’s online course on Chicago History, “History of Chicago from Trading Post to Metropolis” has a chapter devoted to the time period covered in this lesson. Module 3, Chapter 3 of this online text is titled “Race and Politics 1940-1959.

http://www.roosevelt.edu/chicagohistory/mod3-chap3.htm

The Working Women’s History Project is a site that is devoted to writing working women back into history. It is a joint effort of several organizations including the Illinois Labor History Society.

http://workingwomen.homestead.com/home.html

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau was created in 1920, and its website has a brief history of the Bureau as well as statistics and information about women in the workforce.

http://www.dol.gov/wb/info_about_wb/interwb.htm

AFSCME’s LaborLinks website has a page devoted to links Women’s Labor History.

http://www.afscme.org/publications/12441.cfm

The Library of Congress American Memory Collection has an online exhibit titled “African American Odyssey.” The section titled “The Depression, The New Deal, and WWII” provides both primary and secondary source information about the life of African Americans during this time period. This also includes the flier for A. Philip Randolph’s proposed March on Washington in 1941.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8.html

The George Meany Memorial Archives is the archives of the AFL-CIO. Their online exhibit is, “A. Philip Randolph, 1889-1979.” This online exhibit has a few primary documents as well as a lesson comparing the Labor Movement and the Civil Rights Movement.

http://www.georgemeany.org/archives/apr.html

The Center for Public Integrity reviews defense contracts, including Campbell Soup’s current defense contracts.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/pns/db.aspx?act=cinfo&coid=001288042

Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), AFL-CIO has a history section on their website and a timeline that highlights FLOC’s first major action – a national boycott against Campbell’s Soup.

http://www.floc.com/history.html

FindLaw.com’s overview of federal legislation about discrimination is a great summary of current anti-discrimination law.

http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/employment-employer/employment-employer-discrimination/employment-employer-discrimination-laws-federal.html

The Oyez website is another great resource for students to research issues of discrimination including discrimination against labor unions. The search for key terms on this site will provide a list of cases considered by the U.S. Supreme Court.

http://www.oyez.org