Studs Terkel was an author, activist, historian, and broadcaster.
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More than four thousand Philadelphia longshoremen, organized by African American IWW leader Ben Fletcher, went on strike and shut down one of the busiest ports in the United States.
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The Poor People’s Campaign was a multiracial effort to gain economic justice for poor people.
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Starting in the spring of 1934, longshoremen across every port on the West Coast struck against the unfair hiring tactics that they experienced daily.
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The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act was signed, prohibiting Chinese immigration to the United States.
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A peaceful demonstration in Chicago for the eight-hour day ended in tragedy when the police barged in and a bomb exploded.
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Amidst a looming “garbage crisis” in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1970, 1,700 sanitation workers went on strike to demand an end to racial discrimination, unsafe working conditions, low pay, and unequal pick-up routes.
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International Workers’ Day began as a commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago.
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