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Today in African-American history: Mary McLeod Bethune born in 1875

July 10, 2015 By Special to People’s World

She organized African American women in the South to vote despite the Jim Crow poll tax and other racist restrictions.

Today in history: Russell-Einstein manifesto for peace

July 9, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The manifesto urged nations to find peaceful ways to settle differences and to renounce the use of nuclear weapons, which only promised "universal death."

Charleston, the Republican right, and the lessons of Martin Luther King

July 8, 2015 By Sam Webb

Few people are claiming that there was anything random or mysterious about the brutal murder of nine innocent African American people in Charleston.

Today in labor history: airline workers strike in 1966

July 8, 2015 By Special to People’s World

On this date in 1966, International Association of Machinists (IAM) members across the country employed by five airlines went on strike.

“JFK and the Unspeakable” is “convincing portrait” of Kennedy

July 6, 2015 By Rick Nagin

This is the only book on the assassination recommended by the Kennedy family.