Draft:Colfax Rameau
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P. Colfax Rameau was a reverend and labor leader in the United States.[1] He served as president of the Southern Afro - American Federation of Industrial Brotherhood.[2][3] He published the Workmen's Chronicle.[4] He advocated for opportunities for black miners and opposed black membership in white led unions.[5][6]
He was born in Mobile, Alabama and attended school there. He graduated from [[Talladega College. He took a course at University of Pennsylvania's philosophy department and traveled for two years in Europe and Asia working as a baker. After his return he advocated for a reformatory school to be established to put "delinquents" to work.[7]
In 1918 he wrote to Alabama governor Charles Henderson about organizing war councils among black miners.[8] He wrote to Woodrow Wilson in 1920 and James J. Davis in 1921.[9]
References
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- ^ https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/photo/id/319
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- ^ https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/voices/id/3842
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLKilDtU3jsC&pg=PT436&dq="Rameau"+coal+workers&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiMntDE4u-HAxXY78kDHS_nKt0Q6AF6BAgHEAM