A small group of black farmers organize the Colored Farmers? National Alliance and Cooperative Union in Houston County, Texas. They had been barred from membership in the all-white Southern Farmers? Alliance. Through intensive organizing, along with merging with another black farmers group, the renamed Colored Alliance by 1891 claimed a membership of 1.2 million - 1886
Ratification of a new labor agreement at Titan Tire of Natchez, Miss., ends the longest strike in the history of the U.S. tire industry, which began May 1, 1998, at the company's Des Moines, Iowa, plant - 2001