P. Colfax Rameau

P. Colfax Rameau (1874–?) was an American minister, newspaper editor, newspaper publisher, civil rights leader, and leader of Black workers in Alabama.[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 he opposed black membership in white-led unions.[5][6] He also used the name Colfax Rameau,[5] and P.C. Rameau.

Biography

Born in Mobile, Alabama in 1874, he attended school there[7] and graduated from Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama.[7] He took a course in the philosophy department at the University of Pennsylvania, and later traveled for two years in Europe and Asia working as a baker. After his return to the United States he advocated for a reformatory school to be established to put "delinquents" to work.[7] He edited the Workmen's Chronicle, which is described by Brian Kelly as "black-run, ardently antiunion.[6]: 106 

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

  1. ^ Letwin, Daniel (1998). The Challenge of Interracial Unionism: Alabama Coal Miners, 1878-1921. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4678-0.
  2. ^ "Manufacturers Record". 1920.
  3. ^ "CONTENTdm". digital.archives.alabama.gov.
  4. ^ Brown, Edwin L.; Davis, Colin John (1999). It is Union and Liberty: Alabama Coal Miners and the UMW. University of Alabama Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8173-0999-2.
  5. ^ a b Lewis, Ronald L. (2021-03-17). Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. University Press of Kentucky. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8131-8151-6.
  6. ^ a b Kelly, Brian (2001). Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06933-8.
  7. ^ a b c The Juvenile Court Record. Vol. 10. Visitation and Aid Society. 1913. p. 15 – via Google Books.
  8. ^ "CONTENTdm". digital.archives.alabama.gov.
  9. ^ Moreno, Paul D. (January 1, 2006). Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-4882-2 – via Google Books.
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