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Black steelworkers at Inland Steel, Indiana Harbor

CTL-E-1029 · Institution · other · 1919-1970s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black production workers at Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor works who operated furnaces, mills, and finishing equipment while largely excluded from craft and supervisory roles before and during the CIO organizing era.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-013; source research type(s): None.

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