Knights of Labor
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The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, became the first mass labor organization, welcoming all “producers”: skilled and unskilled, Black and white, men and women.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025
That was the case in the 1870s and 1880s, when the eight-hour day became the rallying cry for the Knights of Labor, the first truly national industrial labor union.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
According to Ted Watt's The First Labor Day Parade, the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2015
One of the first national labor unions, the Knights of Labor, was organized in 1869.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
She developed relationships with the women’s division of the Knights of Labor, the Universal Peach Union, and the Daughters of the American Revolution, to name a few.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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