Honey – Race & the CIO
This group was the backbone of CIO organizing in the South.
Who were Black workers?
Faue’s story centers on this city.
What is Minneapolis?
Both authors say unions depended on this.
What is solidarity?
This coalition brought liberals, radicals, and unions together.
What is the Popular Front?
Both authors show unions were built from here.
What is the bottom up?
Honey says unions in the South could not succeed without this.
What is interracial organizing?
Women expanded unionism beyond the shop floor into this space.
What is the community (or family)?
This party supported labor and relief in Minneapolis.
What is the Farmer–Labor Party?
These workers are centered in both readings.
Who are women and Black workers?
This union organized Black workers in cotton and food industries in Memphis.
What is UCAPAWA?
This mostly female industry was key to women’s organizing.
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is the garment industry?
Being called this was a common attack on CIO organizers.
What is “Communist” (or “red”)?
Both readings challenge this classic labor story.
What is “white male industrial workers only”?
Faue says unions were held together by this metaphor.
What is the family?
This system limited how far interracial unions could go.
DAILY DOUBLE:
What is Jim Crow?
Together, Honey and Faue show labor was about more than wages—it was about this.
What is community survival?