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Confronting Racial Bias

Shirley Chisholm Biography
A brief biography of the the first African- American woman elected to the U.S. Congress.

Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Greats
When Jackie Robinson took the field as a Brooklyn Dodger in 1947, he became the first African American to play major league baseball in the twentieth century.

Women Breaking Barriers

Wartime Brooklyn: Women in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, 1942-1946  
An overview of women working in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Seeking a Better Life

New York Before the War:
The Works Progress Administration's Federal Arts Project
More than a thousand images of New York City life in the 1930s, including Jewish Sabbath observances, African-Americans in Harlem, subway construction, the shipping, processing, and sale of food, adults and children at the Coney Island amusement park, work in the garment industry and on loading docks, and street scenes

Changes in the Workplace

Early Rapid Transit in Brooklyn, 1878 to 1913
This article by Mark S. Feinman covers the early history of Brooklyn Transit.

Sam Reiss: An Eyewitness to Labor History, 1948-1975
Web exhibit featuring the photographs of photographer Sam Reiss. Reiss used his camera to capture historic events that shaped American labor. Most of his work records the day-to-day building of the labor movement in New York City.