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Caulkers
How Isaac Myers formed a marine company to support unemployed blacks in the 1860s
The reality Isaac Myers knew about the Baltimore shipyard was that it was an integrated space that employed both black and white workers. Conditions even improved for African Americans in the shipyard when its members decided to form the Caulkers Association, one of the first African-American trade unions in the United States. By 1850, black…
