William Young

CTL-E-1104 · Institution · other · 1930s-1940s

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Inland Steel mill worker at Indiana Harbor who became a Steel Workers Organizing Committee leader — elected vice-president of the merged Lodge 1010 in 1938 and the first Black chair of a steel union local grievance committee.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from TECH-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-TECH-001:TECH-E-107; source research type(s): None.

Sources

usw1010.org (union local site) (primary source)
Wikipedia, 'Inland Steel Company'; Workers World review of Ruth Needleman, Black Freedom Fighters in Steel (2003)

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