tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709132985722085851.post5952573231570287066..comments2024-03-12T09:52:35.576-07:00Comments on Bill Sundstrom's Blog: Your FSA/OWI Photo of the DayBill Sundstromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09816227203561266732noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709132985722085851.post-84691493103714825632013-07-22T19:08:30.050-07:002013-07-22T19:08:30.050-07:00The UAW and the CIO more generally were on the who...The UAW and the CIO more generally were on the whole pretty racially progressive, even before Ford. They recognized that organizing the industrial masses would require inclusion rather than exclusion, such as the craft unions had practiced. Also, even the more mainstream CIO leadership recognized that they had to compete with more radical elements, i.e. the communists/ popular front, who advocated racial equality.Bill Sundstromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09816227203561266732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1709132985722085851.post-52908141691351903252013-07-22T07:24:53.318-07:002013-07-22T07:24:53.318-07:00So the UAW needed to witness African American hire...So the UAW needed to witness African American hires by Ford to fully appreciate and appropriate the same status held by white workers to their black counterparts? taronoreply@blogger.com