Mel Hopkins

#blackhistory

According to " Why Do We Take Pride in Working for a Paycheck?"  by Livia Gershon,
The early American Labor movement didn't include black men or black women. 

Around 150 years ago, it was allegedly beneath white society to sell their time for wages thus bringing the term, wage slavery into the American lexicon when referring to corporate jobs. 

It's reported that in an effort to entice white workers including white working class women, whom worked the farms for their husbands, wages and working conditions were made more palatable.  This fight came from an organized labor union "Knights of Labor" however their advances didn't include black people.  

Today, black women only earn .68 cents on a dollar earned by a white man.