1968
Labor / Black women’s organizingBook sources
Dorothy Bolden organizes domestic workers in Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia; domestic workers
Dorothy Bolden founded the National Domestic Workers Union of America in 1968. The organization gave domestic workers a collective voice in an occupation shaped by the exploitation of Black women. Zinn places this organizing alongside challenges to both racial and gender hierarchy.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
The university collection description confirms the organization and founding year. Membership totals, wage gains and individual workers’ experiences require examination of the underlying records; collective organizing did not automatically secure statutory bargaining rights.
Sources
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 19, pp. 508–510; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- Georgia State University: National Domestic Workers Union of America records collection description ↗