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Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.
Find resources about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many of them arranged thematically.
Labor Websites
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U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - EEOCThe U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against a job applicant or an employee because of the person's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age (40 or older), disability or genetic information.
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U.S. Department of Labor - Topic: DiscriminationThe U.S. Department of Labor website describes government programs to combat job discrimination.
Selected Books
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Black Workers Remember: An Oral History of Segregation, Unionism, and the Freedom Struggle
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Call Number: HD8081 .A65 H66 1999 -
American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
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Call Number: E185.8 .J767 1998 -
Farm Workers and the Churches: The Movement in California and Texas
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Call Number: BV2695.M5 W37 2010 -
Cannery Women, Cannery Lives: Mexican Women, Unionization, and the California Food Processing Industry, 1930-1950
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Call Number: HD6515.F72 U547 1987 -
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
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Call Number: HD6515.T6 K67 2003 -
The Question of Discrimination: Racial Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market byCall Number: HD4903.5.U58 Q47 1989
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Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment since the Civil Rights Act
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Call Number: HD4903.5.U58 S69 2012
