Norris Wright Cuney
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Norris Wright Cuney was an American politician, businessman, union leader, and advocate for the rights of African-Americans in Texas. Following the American Civil War, he became active in Galveston po
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Dockworker
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A dockworker is a waterfront manual laborer who loads and unloads ships.
Norris Wright Cuney
…Union League and helped attract black voters to the Republican Party; in the 1890s, more than 100,000 blacks were voting in Texas. Establishing his own stevedores business, he helped to unionize black workers in Galveston, opening jobs for them on the docks. He substantially improved employment and educational…
Longshoremen on a New York dock load barrels onto a barge on the Hudson River. Photograph by Lewis Hine, c. 1912.
At anchor, two barges with cranes (floating derricks) at port
A container is lifted from the deck.
Dockworkers on the containers in the ship's hatch