| ACA | Affordable Care Act |
| AFB | American Farm Bureau |
| AFDC | Aid to Families with Dependent Children |
| AFL | American Federation of Labor |
| ARA | Area Redevelopment Act |
| ARRA | American Recovery and Reinvestment Act |
| BLM | Black Lives Matter |
| BPP | Black Panther Party |
| BSCP | Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters |
| CAP | Community Action Program |
| CCC | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| CEA | Council of Economic Advisers |
| CETA | Comprehensive Employment and Training Act |
| CIO | Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| CORE | Congress of Racial Equality |
| CP | Communist Party |
| ED | Department of Education |
| DOL | Department of Labor |
| EAC | Emergency Advisory Councils |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| EFCA | Employee Free Choice Act |
| EITC | Earned Income Tax Credit |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| FEPC | Fair Employment Practices Committee |
| FHA | Federal Housing Administration |
| FLSA | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| FRG | Federal Republic of Germany |
| HUAC | House Un-American Activities Committee |
| HUD | Housing and Urban Development (Department) |
| JCNR | Joint Committee on National Recovery |
| LDF | Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP |
| MDTA | Manpower and Development Training Act |
| MOWM | March on Washington Movement |
| NAACP | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NALC | Negro American Labor Council |
| NIRA | National Industrial Recovery Act |
| NLRA | National Labor Relations Act |
| NLRB | National Labor Relations Board |
| NNA | New Negro Alliance |
| NNC | National Negro Congress |
| NRA | National Recovery Administration |
| NUL | National Urban League |
| PWA | Public Works Administration |
| PWOC | Packinghouse Workers’ Organizing Committee |
| SCAD | State Commission Against Discrimination (New York) |
| SCLC | Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| SNCC | Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee |
| SSA | Social Security Act |
| SWOC | Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee |
| TARP | Troubled Asset Relief Program |
| TPP | Trans-Pacific Partnership |
| TSLU | Tobacco Stemmers and Laborers’ Union |
| UAW | United Auto Workers |
| VA | Veterans Administration |
| VISTA | Volunteers in Service to America |
| WB | Workers’ Bureau |
| WC | Workers’ Councils |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration |
