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Terrence Powderly was the American labor leader who headed the Knights of Labor, a nationwide labor unions that included both skilled and unskilled, white and black workers. After winning a few major strikes and growing rapidly, the Knights weakened after 1886 and faded in the face of the much more effective American Federation of Labor.
Powederly, like most labor leaders was an Irish Catholic