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Today in labor history: Bread and Roses strike

January 11, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1912 the "Bread and Roses" textile strike began in Lawrence, Mass.

Today in Labor History: Tenant farmers sit down in highway

January 9, 2013 By Special to People’s World

On this day in 1939, the Southern Tenant Farmers Union led 1,700 farm families in the Missouri Highway Sit-down.

Gerda Lerner, pioneering scholar of women’s, African-American history

January 8, 2013 By Marc Brodine

Gerda 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.

Today in labor history: New Orleans slave uprising

January 8, 2013 By Special to People’s World

The revolt consisted of somewhere between 300-500 people.

Today in labor history: Labor radical Tom Mooney freed

January 7, 2013 By Special to People’s World

Radical labor activist Tom Mooney, accused of a murder by bombing in San Francisco, was pardoned and freed after 22 years in San Quentin.