Speech
Trumka to New York NAACP: "What will be our future?"
… Good evening. I am honored to be with you tonight at the first chartered branch of the NAACP, at the institution often known as the labor branch of the … me, and allowing me a small part in the shared history of the civil rights and labor movements. It’s especially meaningful to me to accept this award in 2014. This is a anniversary year for civil rights milestones. A few weeks ago, we marked the … raw bigotry. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed a lot of that—and gave us many tools we still use today to continue the work of ending discrimination in the workplace. The way to honor the women and men of the Civil Rights Revolution is not by …