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Today in Labor & Black History, August 8th
http://www.workdayminnesota.org/history/08/08
August 8, 1902
About 100 men and women -- delegates to the St. Paul Trades and Labor Assembly -- met in downtown St. Paul for the semi-monthly meeting of the 20-year-old labor organization. They elected 35-year-old Charles James, a skilled leather cutter and a leader of the Boot and Shoe Workers Union, as Assembly president. He was the first African-American elected to that leadership post in St. Paul, perhaps the first in the nation. Light-skinned, James could have "passed" as white, but was an active member of the African-American community. He left the Assembly to become a national organizer for the Boot and Shoe Workers.
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