1944: (The Marriage Wage Law as Workers’ Rights — For the LFAS the Marriage Wage Law Being an Issue of Workers’ Rights, the Members Being Among a Number of B…

1944: (The Marriage Wage Law as Workers’ Rights — For the LFAS the Marriage Wage Law Being an Issue of Workers’ Rights, the Members Being Among a Number of Black Women Activists Throughout the Region Who Took Up Similar Issues Around Women’s Wages — a Year Before the LFAS Put the Wage Law Before the Senate Yvonne Sylvain’s Friend and Member of the National Association of Colored Women Sadie T. M. Alexander Putting Forth a Domestic Working Women’s Bill in Pennsylvania That Ensured Black Women’s Wages Were Issued Fairly): The simultaneity of World War II and the political volatility of the mid-1940s presented an opportunity for the women to lobby for change in the rapidly changing political arena. For the LFAS, the marriage wage law was an issue of workers’ rights. The members were among a number of Black women activists throughout the region who took up similar issues around women’s wages. A year before the LFAS put the wage law before the senate, Yvonne Sylvain’s friend and member of the National Association of Colored Women Sadie T. M. Alexander put forth a domestic working women’s bill in Pennsylvania that ensured that Black women’s wages were issued fairly — the Haitian wage law and the Pennsylvania domestic workers’ bill were parallel responses to the same transatlantic condition: Black women’s labor extracted without compensation or control.