Julia Pferdehirt's Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers (Badger Biographies PDF

By Julia Pferdehirt

When William "Blue" Jenkins was once only six months previous, he moved along with his mom and dad from a Mississippi sharecropper’s farm to the commercial urban of Racine, Wisconsin with goals of a brand new lifestyles. As an African-American within the pre–civil rights period, Blue got here head to head with racism: the Ku Klux Klan hung a black determine in effigy from a tree within the Jenkins family’s backyard. growing to be up, Blue knew the place blacks may perhaps store, devour, and get a role in Racine—and the place they couldn’t. The injustices that faced Blue in his younger existence may force his wish to make confident alterations to his neighborhood and office in adulthood.

This addition to the Badger Biographies sequence stocks Blue Jenkins’s tale because it acquaints younger readers with African-American and exertions background. Following an all-star occupation as a highschool soccer participant, Blue grew to become serious about unions via his paintings at Belle urban Malleable. As global struggle II raged on, he participated within the home-front conflict opposed to discrimination in paintings, housing, and financial chance. while Blue turned president of the union at Belle urban, he equipped blood drives and fought for safeguard rules. He additionally helped to combine exertions union places of work. In 1962, he turned president of the U.A.W. nationwide Foundry within the Midwest, and located himself in command of 50,000 foundry union members.

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