Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor Highlight

In 1950, when the Matson Navigation Company refused to allow Luella Lawhorn, a Black woman, to work on its luxury liner Lurline, to Hawai’i, all 311 stewards on board walked off in protest. The union held firm and saw to it that Lawhorn became the first-ever Black stewardess on a U.S. passenger ship in the Pacific.