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1. study.com › academy › lessonThe American Federation of Labor | History, Goals & Significance

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   Nov 21, 2023 · The American Federation of Labor (AFL) was a national umbrella trade union organized in support of labor reform. The AFL's members were skilled laborers representing a variety of trades and crafts.

2. www.loc.gov › collections › american-federation-ofAbout this Collection | American Federation of Labor Records ...

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   The records of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) span the years 1883-1925 and consist of letterpress volumes of correspondence of Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) and William Green (1870-1952), presidents of the organization, and by other officials including James Duncan, Gabriel Edmonston, Frank Keyes Foster, and John McBride.

3. blogs.loc.gov › inside_adams › 2023Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor

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   May 24, 2023 · The Samuel Gompers Memorial Park, located at the corner of 10 th and Massachusetts Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in October 1933 (on the same block as the union’s headquarters) and he was among the first crew of people inducted to the Department of Labor’s Labor Hall of Fame in 1989. The union continued with its mission.

4. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu › disp_textbookSamuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor

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   This was the American Federation of Labor. Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was the first president of the American Federation of Labor, the first enduring national labor union. He served as president from 1886 until his death in 1924, except for a single year, 1895.

5. aflcio.org › about › historySamuel Gompers | AFL-CIO

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   When the FOTLU re-organized in 1886 as the American Federation of Labor, Gompers was elected its first president, a position he held for nearly 40 years. As a local and national labor leader, Gompers sought to build the labor movement into a force powerful enough to transform the economic, social and political status of America's workers.

6. kinginstitute.stanford.edu › american-federationAmerican Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial ...

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   Martin Luther King spoke of the shared goals of the civil rights and labor movements, noting in his 1961 address to the fourth AFL-CIO national convention that both African Americans and union members were fighting for “decent wages, fair working conditions, livable housing, old age security, health and welfare measures, conditions in which ...

7. guides.loc.gov › chronicling-america-samuel-gompersIntroduction - Samuel Gompers: Topics in Chronicling America ...

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   Dec 28, 2023 · Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) is the founder of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Gifted at orating and assembling strikes, Gompers used them as effective weapons to change the degrading conditions of the working men of America.