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Today in Labor History: Tenant farmers sit down in highway
January 9, 2013On this day in 1939, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union led 1,700 farm families in the Missouri Highway Sit-down.
Read moreGerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history
January 8, 2013Gerda Lerner, whose life went from Jewish radical activist in Austria to refugee from Nazism to prominent U.S. historian, passed away in Madison, Wisc., at the age of 92, this month.
Read moreToday in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising
January 8, 2013The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.
Read moreToday in labor history: Labor radical Tom Mooney freed
January 7, 2013Radical labor activist Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, was pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin.
Read more“Free the Wilmington Ten!” forty years later
January 4, 2013Forty years. Damn it's been a long time.
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