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Today in labor history: African American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery

October 18, 2012 By Special to People’s World

On October 18, 1775, Phillis Wheatley - the first African-American poet and the first to publish a book - was freed from slavery. She was sold into slavery during childhood and transported from West Africa to...

NAACP continues campaign to restore ex-felons’ voting rights

October 16, 2012 By Dan Margolis

Voting: it's one of the fundamental rights of a citizen in a democracy, and yet millions of Americans who are ex-felons are denied it, even after they have paid their debt to society.

Today in labor history: John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry

October 16, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Brown, a minister and fierce opponent of slavery, sought to obtain weapons from the arsenal to defeat the slaveocracy in the South. John Brown and his men were captured and executed.

The reverse discrimination farce

October 12, 2012 By Teresa Albano

History repeats itself: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. So it goes for the Supreme Court case on affirmative action and campus diversity, Fisher v. University of Texas.

Today in labor history: Eisenhower enforces racial integration in Little Rock

September 24, 2012 By Special to People’s World

Orval Faubus tried to prevent schools in Little Rock from integrating, despite the fact that the Supreme Court had ordered the desegregation of public schools three years prior.