Knights of Labor

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  • Title Knights of Labor
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  • Keywords first labor organization in America that was truly national in scope, Members were organized into Local Assemblies, first two Local Assemblies in South Carolina were made up of telegraph operators in Charleston and Columbia, Haymarket Affair in May 1886, General Assembly in Richmond, Virginia, in 1886, Ben Tillman and the Farmers’ Alliance
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date March 29, 2024
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 9, 2022
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