Black steelworkers at U.S. Steel Gary Works

CTL-E-1030 · Institution · other · 1908-1970s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Black workers recruited during the Great Migration into the Gary, Indiana integrated steelworks — blast furnaces, coke ovens, open-hearth furnaces, rolling mills — mostly confined to unskilled and dangerous jobs.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-014; source research type(s): None.

Sources

Indiana Magazine of History via scholarworks.iu.edu (scholarly)
'Steelmill' worker memoir (libcom.org PDF) (primary source)

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