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Looking for workers
English planters found Jamestown colony and complain about lack of laborers -
Slave Labor
Slaves from Africa first imported to colonies -
Start of Strikes
First recorded prosecution against strikers in New York City -
Fight for slaves
Slave importation prohibited -
End of Slavery
President Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation -
Reconstruction
Congress begins reconstruction policy in former slave states -
celebrate workers
First Labor Day parade in New York City -
labor union
American Federation of Labor founded -
Womens trade union
women’s Trade Union League formed at AFL convention -
Industrial Workers of the World
Industrial Workers of the World founded -
women voters
19th Amendment to the Constitution gives women the right to vote -
great depression begins
Stock market crashes as stocks fall 40 percent; Great Depression begins -
strikes
Upsurge in strikes, including national textile strike, which fails -
new cio
John L. Lewis resigns and Philip Murray becomes CIO president -
large strike
Largest strike wave in U.S. history -
Dr. Martin Luther King assassinated
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tenn., during sanitation workers' strike -
work environments
Occupational Safety and Health Act passed -
women coalition
Coalition of Labor Union Women founded
