Local 851 & Galveston's segregated waterfront

Local 851 & Galveston's segregated waterfront Longshoremen are the workers who handle cargo operations on ships that called the busy port of Galveston! Galveston‘s longshoremen have a rocky history in terms of racial segregation, and rights to work on the waterfront. Like many ports in the late 1800s to mid 1900s, the longshore unions at the port of Galveston separated by race. Although the unions were racially divided, it was common to have longshoremen from separate unions loadi...