Film. Bill Brummel Productions. 2008. 39 minutes.
A documentary film and teaching guide on the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s.
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Film. Directed and produced by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar. Working Women Documentary Project LLC. 2021.
While Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" song is well known, this documentary captures the real-life 9-to-5 organizing to address issues of working women in the early 1970s that led to a union.
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Film. By Robert Townsend. 2002. 89 minutes.
Docudrama about A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first Black labor union in the United States.
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Film clip. Voices of a People's History.
Dramatic reading of Eugene Deb's "Canton, Ohio" speech made on June 16, 1918 by Marc Ruffalo.
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Film clip. Voices of a People's History.
Harriet Hanson Robinson's "Characteristics of the Early Factory Girls" (1898) read by Lili Taylor.
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Film clip. Voices of a People's History.
Dramatic reading of Vicky Star's "Back of the Yards" by Christina Kirk.
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Profile.
Brief profiles of people and events from Asian American and Pacific Islander people's history.
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Poster. By Ricardo Levins-Morales.
Tips and tactics of organizing.
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Poster. By Dylan Miner.
Informational poster about Roscoe Van Zandt and the Flint Sit-Down Strike.
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Poster. By Ricardo Levins Morales.
Poster describes the positive impact of the labor movement.
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Poster and book. By Stephen J. Rose. 2007; updated 2015. 56 pages.
Visual representation of the distribution of wealth in the United States.
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Digital collection. Crowdsourcing project that provides access to information, through thousands of print advertisements, about freedom-seekers and their would-be enslavers in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Digital collection. Features 11 projects on labor and civil rights movements in the Pacific Northwest with oral histories, primary documents, and more.
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Digital collection. Extensive online archive of primary documents on the Triangle Factory Fire.
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Digital collection. Records of the Voice of Industry newspaper, published by young women in Lowell, Mass. from 1845-1848.
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Website.
Portraits by Robert Shetterly and biographies of individuals who have taken a stand for justice.
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Digital collection. Information and resources on the 1934 truckers strikes in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Digital collection. Digital photo collection of the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912.
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Website. Free downloadable teaching activities for pre-school to college to introduce labor history in the classroom.
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Radio program and podcast.
Daily news radio program, hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, with voices rarely heard in corporate media.
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Website. Strengthens the labor movement through the use of music and arts.
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Website. Coalition of groups dedicated to education and memorial events about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.
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Digital collection. Developed by Mark Gregory. Over 700 union songs in an easy to search and regularly updated online collection with lyrics and audio.
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Website. Full text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related information.
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Website. Extensive and well-organized collection of Woody Guthrie's songs, biography, archives, and more.
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