AFM segregated Black local (Chicago)

CTL-E-0587 · Business · other · 1900–1967

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Chicago's Black musicians were organized in a segregated American Federation of Musicians local, part of a national system of 50+ Black locals; Chicago's union desegregation struggle ran 1963-1967.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-infra-068; source research type(s): business. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

Univ. of Michigan Press TOC (2014); rebiun catalog entry for Miller, 'Union Divided' (2024)

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