Black IBEW electricians in Chicago

CTL-E-1026 · Institution · other · 1930s-present

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Black journeyman electricians in Chicago who organized a separate IBEW charter in the 1930s and won full membership in Local 134 by 1942, wiring the city's commercial and infrastructure electrical systems.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-010; source research type(s): None.

Sources

ENR, 'From the Archives: The Fight to Racially Integrate the US Construction Industry'; reason.com, 'Exclusionary Rule' (1991)
reason.com, 'Exclusionary Rule' (1991)

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