Union members were beaten by Ford Motor Co. reps for distributing leaflets in the Battle of the Overpass.
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Eugene V. Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I, which was raging in Europe at the time.
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The New York City Tompkins Square Riot occurred during a devastating economic depression.
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More than 1,000 streetcar workers went on strike in New Orleans.
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In Paterson, New Jersey, 2,000 workers went on strike from 20 textile mills.
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Mary Harris “Mother” Jones began the “March of the Mill Children.”
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Spies from the Pinkerton Detective Agency and striking steelworkers engaged in a major battle as part of the Homestead Strike.
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The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was signed, providing land to the formerly enslaved, lands which had been stolen from the Native American inhabitants.
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Rail workers and residents of St. Louis, Missouri briefly took over the city as part of the wider Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
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White workers murdered Black workers in Arkansas who were coming to work on the railways.
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White coal miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming, brutally attacked Chinese workers.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act sought to end practices that limited competition throughout the economy.
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Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly began a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
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Tenayuca was known as “La Pasionaria de Texas” for her commitment to justice for Mexican American laborers.
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A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, made the official call for a march on Washington, with the demand to end segregation in defense industries.
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Picture book. By Alice Faye Duncan. Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie. 2018. 40 pages.
A historical fiction picture book that presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike.
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Milwaukee representative Victor Berger introduced House Resolution 409 to conduct hearings into the Lawrence strike and the workings of the American Woolen Company.
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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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Book — Non-fiction. By Diane Wilson. 2006. 392 pages.
Shrimp-boat captain Diane Wilson takes on corporate greed and political corruption in a true story about environmental activism on the Texas Gulf Coast.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick. Adapted by Susan Campbell Bartoletti and Eric S. Singer. Vol 1. 2014. 400 pages. Vol 2. 2019. 320 pages.
These are two volumes of illustrated histories, adapted for students from a documentary book and film of the same name.
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Brazil’s military police gunned down 19 peasant farm workers in the Via Campesina movement who were marching for land sovereignty in 1996.
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