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date: 21 June 2025

Knights of Labor. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Leon FinkLeon Fink

Founded in 1869 as a secret society of Philadelphia garment cutters, the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor by the early 1880s emerged at the center of a powerful movement among working people determined to challenge the terms of American industrialism. Under the leadership first of the Philadelphia tailor ... ...

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